ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – A musher from Alaska who’d been missing since late May near the Danali National Park and Preserve near Anchorage was found alive Saturday, two days after police called of a search for her.

Melanie Gould, an Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race veteran, contacted police in Cantwell on Saturday and was taken to a Mat-Su hospital.

A spokeswoman with the Alaska State Troopers wouldn’t give Gould’s condition or say where she’d been found.

The 34-year-old musher from Talkeetna was last seen May 31 buying gas near her hometown. Her truck was found a quarter-mile off the Denali Highway about 18 miles from Cantwell, which is a community just south of the Denali National Park.

The musher ran the Iditarod from 2000-2007. Her best finish was in 2006, when she came in  18^th place.

Troopers end search for musher, broadcast 7 a.m. Friday, June 10, 2011

By News Director Leslie Stratmoen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska  – We suspect that some in the local mushing community who routinely race in the International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race through Wyoming may be waiting for this news. The search has been abandoned for missing musher Melanie Gould of Alaska.

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State troopers in that state called off the search today for the former Iditarod musher who’s been missing for more than a week. The 34-year-old from Talkeetna was last seen May 31 buying gas near her home town. Her truck was found a quarter-mile off the Denali Highway about 18 miles from Cantwell. That’s a community just south of the Denali National Park and Preserve.

Troopers say ground searchers, search dogs and aircraft spent four days trying to find the missing musher. They now say the active search will be suspended until evidence or credible information regarding the musher’s whereabouts are given to narrow a search area.

From information provided by The Associated Press