Profile: Carolyn Lang
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Moving forward is really the only thing she knows how to do. Just this month, she married fellow mushing enthusiast Adam Lang and was hired by an Iditarod and Yukon Quest veteran musher in Fox. She is working part-time during her last semester and will transition to full-time after graduation. It won't be long now until she'll be crossing the finish line of the Yukon Quest.