Sebastian Schnuelle
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Dog
The domestic dog is a domesticated form of the gray wolf, a member of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The term is used for both feral and pet varieties. The dog may have been the first animal to be domesticated, and has been the most widely kept working, hunting, and companion animal in...
musher
Mushing
Mushing is a general term for a sport or transport method powered by dogs, and includes carting, pulka, scootering, sled dog racing, skijoring, freighting, and weight pulling. More specifically, it implies the use of one or more dogs to pull a sled on snow or a rig on dry land...
and dog sled racer
Dogsled racing
Sled dog racing is a winter dog sport most popular in the Arctic regions of the United States, Canada, Russia, and some European countries. It involves the timed competition of teams of sleddogs that pull a sled with the dog driver or musher standing on the runners...
from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, who won the 2009 1000 mile Yukon Quest
Yukon Quest
The Yukon Quest 1,000-mile International Sled Dog Race, or simply Yukon Quest, is a sled dog race run every February between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon...
sled dog race. Schnuelle is fluent in English, French, and German
Schnuelle was born in Wuppertal, Germany. By the age of 25 he had become an industrial mechanic for Mercedes Benz, however he decided to take a leave from that duty and spent the summer working in an Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
national park. Following that adventure, he undertook a canoe trip up the length of the Mackenzie River
Mackenzie River
The Mackenzie River is the largest river system in Canada. It flows through a vast, isolated region of forest and tundra entirely within the country's Northwest Territories, although its many tributaries reach into four other Canadian provinces and territories...
finishing at Tuktoyaktuk. After that canoe trip he decided to settle in the Yukon Territories choosing the Whitehorse
Whitehorse, Yukon
Whitehorse is Yukon's capital and largest city . It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1476 on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon. Whitehorse's downtown and Riverdale areas occupy both shores of the Yukon River, which originates in British Columbia and meets the Bering Sea in...
area where he took up mushing
Mushing
Mushing is a general term for a sport or transport method powered by dogs, and includes carting, pulka, scootering, sled dog racing, skijoring, freighting, and weight pulling. More specifically, it implies the use of one or more dogs to pull a sled on snow or a rig on dry land...
and would eventually open a dog sled tour business called Blue Kennels (named after his first sled dog "Blue"). He began running both the Yukon Quest
Yukon Quest
The Yukon Quest 1,000-mile International Sled Dog Race, or simply Yukon Quest, is a sled dog race run every February between Fairbanks, Alaska, and Whitehorse, Yukon...
and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 2005 and continued entering both in 2006, and 2007. Following his victory in the 2009 Yukon Quest, he plans to complete the double again by competing in the 2009 Iditarod. Schnuelle captured the Veterinarians choice award as well as the Sportsmanship award in the 2007 Yukon Quest. His lead dogs Inuk, and Popcorn captured the Golden Harness award in the 2009 Yukon Quest.