HUMAN

Name: MATT HALL
Age: 27
Residence: TWO RIVERS, ALASKA
Occupation: LAST FRONTIER MUSHING CO-OP GUIDING TOURS
Years involved with Iditarod: 2ND
Iditarod Role: MUSHER
Current Location: EAGLE ISLAND, ALASKA
Date of Photo: MARCH 9, 2019
Temperature: 34F / OUTDOORS

What is your Why?.. Why are you here today and involved in Iditarod?:

RACING HAS KIND OF BEEN MY DREAM SINCE A TEENAGER. SINCE I WAS ABOUT 16, 17 YEARS OLD IS WHEN I KIND OF GOT THE IDEA THAT, YEAH, THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO DO WITH MY LIFE. MY FOLKS HAD DOGS. AND I’D ALWAYS BEEN AROUND DOGS, BUT NOT THE RACING SIDE OF IT. SO THAT’S WHEN I HAD MY FIRST LITTER. AND THEN WE STARTED WORKING TOWARDS THAT GOAL AND, I MEAN, HERE WE ARE TODAY, JUST TRYING TO HAVE FUN.

Tell me about your most rewarding experience on Iditarod?:

WELL, I GUESS THIS IS ONLY MY SECOND IDITAROD NOW, SO I GUESS IT WOULD BE FINISHING LAST YEAR, KIND OF CONQUERING THE COAST. I’VE RAN SEVERAL YUKON QUESTS, SO I WAS HARDENED TO 1000-MILE RACES, BUT I’D NEVER DONE COASTAL RUNNING BEFORE. SO, YOU KNOW, ONCE WE HIT UNALAKLEET LAST YEAR, FROM THERE ON TO NOME WAS A PRETTY AMAZING EXPERIENCE JUST BEING ON THE COAST AND FINISHING THE RACE.

What do you know for sure?:

THAT YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW.