HUMAN

Name: Bruce Allen Johnson

Age: 56

Residence: Unalakleet, Alaska

Occupation: I do power plant generation, power generation and I also do refrigeration. 

Years involved with Iditarod: Since Pauly and Middy run the Iditarod, the brothers.It’s been a while. Cooked at the Unalakleet checkpoint. I was their dog feeder.

Iditarod role: Cook at Unalakleet Checkpoint

Current Location: Unalakleet, Alaska

Date of Photo: March 16, 2020
Temperature: 28F/Outdoors

What, who or how and when did you first get involved with the Iditarod?

I got involved in the Iditarod through Middy and Paul, they mushed the Iditarod. And they kinda moved from the dog lot to over here when Middy opened up this kitchen. He asked me to help make some hotcakes. I told him to kind of pick me up in the middle of the pack, and so it’s been this way ever since. 

Tell me about just one of your most memorable Iditarod experiences.

What I know for sure is dogs are forgiving, man’s best friend.