Mushers from across Europe met in Slovakia to compete at a championship sled dog race last week. <br /><br />The race took place on February 8-9 and started and finished in the Muzeum Oravskej Dediny, a village made up entirely of traditional-style properties from the mountain regions of Slovakia.<br /><br />The trail was 8km long and teams took part from one dog skijoring (in which a person on skis is pulled by a horse, a dog or a motor vehicle) to eight-dog teams of huskies.<br /><br />The weather conditions were perfect, with fresh snow falling just before the event and cold temperatures for fast trails during the race. <br /><br />Britain’s Matt Hodgson took top honours in the two-dog category. <br /><br />Hodgson, from East Sussex, started racing huskies in 2005 and won the British Championships in 2014. He started competing internationally in 2017.
