For more information on trails, entered mushers lists etc please visit the FOR MUSHERS page.

We would like to welcome Country Hounds to the Wyedean Mushing family and announce their sponsorship of the Junior Wyedean Quest 2012 and a Inner wolf & Dax Scooters with their sponsorship of the mushers musher award, Joint aid for dogs for bib sponsorship and Arctic wolf for their bike jor sponsorship, willows leads,Travis Perkins for the lighting, Happy dog for the 1st - 3rd prizes and the storm kettle shop for the trophy sponsorship.

ACCOMODATION LIST
various travel lodges near by in monmouth 8 miles and ross on wye 8 miles

Speech house hotel - 500yards from race site. 4*hotel. on edge of the woods next to race site. bar, good food. There is a wedding on race weekend so alot of rooms booked up, yet to finalise discount and over night parking! www.thespeechhouse.co.uk

Camping - caravans and vans welcome, cafe, rig wash area, 5* site, greenway farm drybrook ( about 5 miles away from race site) discount for mushers ask for Lorraine.
www.greenwayfarm.org

B&B - Montague Inn, Clements End Coleford. (5 miles from race site) call Cran on 01594 833830 over night van parking/sleeping in car park available for small fee. good food and beer!!! (opening early Feb 2011)

The Rickyard bunk house monmouth (8 - 10 miles)- www.rickyardbunkhouse.co.uk -

The fountain inn parkend (3 miles) - B&B and bunkhouse (need minimum of 9 to book) - www.fountaininnandlodge.co.uk

The Wyndam Arms Clearwell Coleford (4 miles) - B&B next to clearwell castle, very nice! - www.thewyndhamhotel.co.uk

WYEDEAN QUEST 2012

24th 25th 26th FEB - Speech House and Mallards Pike Forest Of Dean
Sage Stop Style Event
Wyedean Mushing

A stage stop style sled dog race based over 3 days and 4 trails, one of the toughest dryland races in the UK. Trails are a mix of hard pack gravel, grass, dirt, some hills, hairpins & lots of turns something for everyone! A chance to swop dogs in and out and run team sizes to suit the trail! your choice per stage! A unique event to the UK sled dog scene and one not to be missed. now in its 4th edition.

New for this year!
We once again have a change in the layout of the trails this year with 4 looped trails, one of which is new, never before race on! saturday will be a challenge to show who has the best all round dogs. ones who can run wide swooping trails and keep their pace up and a trail with 13 turns in 3 miles! friday and sunday again use the same trail as last year!

Mushers meeting 4pm canicross/bikejor and 4.30pm sled dog mushers @ matts van 'tanglefoot'
Day 1 fri from 4.30pm - looped trail - mallards pike - 4.0 mile approx
Day 2 sat 7.30am - looped trail - staple edge - 4.0 mile approx
Day 2 sat 4.30pm - looped trail - speech house - 3.0 mile appox
Day 3 sun 7.30am - looped trail mallards pike - 4.0 mile approx

Classes - unless stated, 8 dogs can be entered per team, max 6 dog running any one stage
( 2 resting ) team class allows 2 musher to pool dogs and team up together, each musher must run at least one stage each!

mushers can run any size team from 2 - 6 dogs (1 dog frieght permited) on any stage unless stated.
Open - open class dogs and mixed teams ( open/pure bred/non pure bred/pure bred non KC reg)
(hounds/non kc siberians/mixed bred sled dogs/kc reg non sled dog breed dogs)
Pure bred indiviual musher - KC reg'd siberians, greenland, eskimo, malamute etc
Pure bred team up - 2 x mushers - 8 x dogs
Freight individual musher- malamute, greenland, canadian eskimo, samoyed, akita (1 dog freight teams are permitted!)
Junior - 1 - 2 dog (sat AM and sun AM only)
Cani-cross men-1 - 2 dog (any breed)
Cani-cross women-1 - 2 dog (any breed)
Bike/scoot -jor - 1 - 2 dog scooter or bike (any breed)
we reconise SDE reg, NPSD reg , SHCGB, SSHC, SDAS open reg and SHWA welfare registered pure bred dogs.

This year the Canicross classes will be presented by The CaniCross Trailrunners and will once again run the same trails as the sled dog teams. Times will be adjusted for starting to ensure canicrossers can get out in good light.

The Junior Wyedean Quest will once again take place on the Saturday afternoon and Sunday Morning.
This year the Junior Saturday trail will be a full length approx 2.75 mile trail with lots of turns. Those teams sharing dogs with their junior musher should be aware of this when planning which dogs run what stages. The sunday stage will be a shorter 1 mile trail.

please note, bike-jor and cani-cross classes are timed starts at 30 second intervals.

Frieight classes will leave first (7.30am) - 1 hour before other classes on Am stages and last class off on Pm classes to get cooler temps.

FOR ENTERED MUSHERS LIST PLEASE VISIT for mushers page our facebook page or www.sibespace.co.uk GO TO WORKING SIBERIANS THREAD AND LOOK FOR WYEDEAN QUEST 2011 POSTS

entries to Matt Hammersley, 6 burcombe, woodmancote, Cirencester, Glos, GL77EH 07778 534124.