An nice article by Craig Medred remembering my Grandfather shortly after he passed away. I wanted to re-post the whole thing, but without written permission from ADN (which I'm not going to bother to get), would be infringing on their copyright. 

Mushing legend Earl Norris was an Alaskan to the core (click to view article)

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2001/11/10/278753/mushing-legend-earl-norris-was.html#storylink=cpy