Overview
- The weekend program includes a celebrity race on Saturday morning alongside competitions for professional mushers.
- Organizers list 90-year-old actor Dieter Hallervorden as a participant, with a professional musher steering his team for safety.
- More than 500 huskies are gathered on the Kaiserbäder stretch of Usedom’s Baltic Sea beach.
- Races are conducted over prepared sand using wheeled rigs rather than runners.
- Organizers report raising about €90,000 for Welthungerhilfe last year, with numerous German film and TV personalities plus first-time entrants from Boss Hoss slated to take part this year.