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IN HIS ELEMENT IN THE ELEMENTS; Jake Berkowitz grew up a city kid in St. Paul, but the 21-year-old has found his true calling in the outdoors. Now it's just him, a sled, his dogs and a mission to beat the grueling Iditarod.(NEWS)
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Byline: CHRIS HAVENS; STAFF WRITER
Jake Berkowitz sleeps on a plywood bunk in a plywood shack, heated by a wood-burning stove.
Most winter mornings, the St. Paul native is up by 6:30 to help feed the dogs, more than 100 of them. After cleaning up after them and doing chores, he takes the dogs for an easy five-hour run in the snow-packed Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Well, they run, he drives.
The 21-year-old is a rookie in the 2008 Iditarod, an 1,100-mile slog over Alaska's punishing terrain in subzero weather. The race, which started Saturday, is dubbed by some "the ...
