Bio

Born and raised in Denmark, Mille Porsild had her first mushing experience in 1992, running a team of Polar Husky sled dogs on a three-month-long dog sled expedition in Canada. She was hooked. Since then, Mille has lived with her sled dogs exploring the north and finding ways to share the adventures with people around the world. She has spent more than 1,000 days and nights on dog sled expeditions and feels at home anywhere in the circumpolar Arctic. Mille has done 15 long-haul expeditions with her Polar Husky freight dogs, with each journey lasting 2 to 6 months, in Greenland, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Alaska and crisscrossing Canada. In 2011 she entered her first sled dog race, running the 800-mile Nadezhda Hope race in Chukotka, Russia. In her first Idirarod in 2020, Mille won the Iditarod Rookie of the Year. The next year, she finished fifth and was the proud recipient of the Leonhard Seppala Humanitarian Award for her care of the dogs.

How did your kennel get its name?

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How did you get started running dogs?

I started out by working with Will Steger getting introduced to Polar Husky sled dogs and expeditions.

What do you love most about running dogs?

My life living with the dogs

Please share with us some stories or facts about your dogs that will be running in the 2025 YQ450.

This is such a great group of super athletes that I have the honor to run -- I own some of the dogs that I work with, but I am so fortunate to have an incredible group of mushers to trust me to work with their dogs: Deedee JonRowe, Jim Bourquin, Dean Osmar and Jessie Holmes.

Are you a member of any other organizations involved in sled dog sports?

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Why did you enter the 2025 YQ450 and what are your goals for the race?

My grandfather's brother built Johnson's Crossing, the small lodge on the Yukon River, which is the first checkpoint on this year's route. It is magical to me I get to run with my team in this place where my family ran dogs before me long ago,.

What music do you listen to on the trail?

I listen to music that tickles my brain to stay alert and awake

How did your dogs get their names/How do you choose names?

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Share a quick story about one of your indispensable Handlers.

Miriam has been helping me since I started working with racedogs and still helps me today - it is really special to me that I get to share this experience of coming to the Yukon Quest with her as she run dogs from my team in the 175 race!

Tell us about your favorite experience with a volunteer on the trail.

Any race I have ever run is made what it is because of the volunteers - the help and kindness, the perseverance on display is humbling.