Todd Palin Featured on Cover of Alaska Magazine

Photo retrieved from and courtesy of Iron Dog on Facebook

Todd Palin, the husband of former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is featured on the front cover of Alaska Magazine in the publication’s coverage of this year’s Iron Dog race. Palin is a four-time champion and eight-time winner. The first five places in the Iron Dog are considered winners and first place is champion. He has been racing for over 20 years, which means 12 out of the 20 or 75% of them were wins. Palin is partnered with Scott Davis this year and the pair constitute Team 11. As part of the feature, Alaska Magazine did a complete Question and Answer interview with Palin.

PAmom4Palin found an online transcript of the interview, written by Debbie Cutler of Alaska Magazine. Palin was born in Dillingham and commercial fished all his life. He moved to Wasilla in 1981. He loves Alaska because of the freedom it gives him to fly, explore, hunt, boat, and snowmachine. I loves Iron Dog in part, because it gives him the ability to see rural Alaska. Palin spoke about the importance of sports and hard work in his life.

“Growing up in rural Alaska commercial fishing taught me hard-work ethics. You got a limited time to catch the fish and when you’re taught that at such a young age, you carry that work ethic throughout your whole life. I worked on the North Slope as a facility production operator for British Petroleum (BP) for many years and am very grateful for that opportunity—great jobs on the North Slope that allow you to maintain that Alaska lifestyle.”

He continued,

With fishing, I was blessed to be taught by my mom, my grandparents and other family members. I was blessed to be taught by them how to fish and then now we get to enjoy teaching our children how to fish. It’s very gratifying to be able to show the rewards of hard work. The Slope was a great job, great place to work. It’s 35-plus years of success—good companies to work for, great people to work with—and when you work in those elements, the weather, the North Slope, everybody really trusts each other. We really have to be a solid team because you’re up there and wind could be blowing 100 miles per hour and temps 50 below…

On November 1, 2012, Bristol Palin announced that her father and his partner would be switching from Arctic Cat to Ski-Doo MX Z X E-TEC 600 snow machines for the 2013 race. Palin cited the Rotax engine’s fuel mileage and power and the durability, reliability, and handling of the Ski-Doo machines as being factors in his decision.

Todd Palin last year, also was on the reality show, Stars Earn Stripes and highly regarded by his teammates on the show.

H/T Ian Lazaran, Conservatives4Palin for lead to Interview Transcript.