Quince Mountain has written for The New York Times and elsewhere, and is coauthor of the bestselling book Dogs on the Trail: A Year in the Life (Ecco, 2021). He was the first openly transgender musher in the Iditarod and has been a survivalist on Discovery’s Naked and Afraid. He lives with his wife and their sled dogs in Wisconsin.
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Musher Quince Mountain is about to embark on his second Iditarod, a long-distance dogsled race across Alaska. He and his dogs will be traveling 1,000 miles over mountains, tundra, sea ice, and parts of the frozen Yukon river. We asked him what he packs to eat.