Jennifer Reiter has been selected as the Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ for the 2014 Iditarod. Jen Reiter is a third grade teacher at Gilman School, an independent boys’ school in Baltimore, Maryland.  She began her teaching career in 1993 in public schools and moved to the independent schools in 2000.  She holds an undergraduate …

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Results of the Iditarod Trail Committee’s Investigation into the Death of Dorado and Potential Mitigation Measures   Wasilla, Alaska – Wednesday, March 20, 2013 – The Iditarod Trail Committee (ITC) has spent the last several days investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of Dorado, a dog owned by Paige Drobny and Cody …

“It was always Joe Redington’s hope that the media would recognize and report on all the mushers in the back of the pack. Joe felt that each musher who entered the race was just as important as the fastest. Each musher and his dogs were undertaking a feat that required courage, strength, endurance, ingenuity, brotherly …

Doors opened for the Finisher’s Banquet of Iditarod XLI at 1500, (actually now that the race is over we can go back to civilian time 3:00 pm). Folks filed in, claimed what they hoped would be a good seat then anticipated an outstanding dinner served by the Millennium of Anchorage. Mushers, fans, family and friends …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Iditarod XLI Finisher’s Banquet Award Winners   Nome, Alaska – Sunday, March 17, 2013 – Iditarod XLI Special Awards given at the Finisher’s Banquet:   Pen Air Spirit of Alaska Award – Aaron Burmeister GCI Dorothy G. Page Halfway Award – Lance Mackey Millennium Alaskan Hotel First Musher to the Yukon Award …

The siren sounded and quite shortly thereafter, Christine Roalofs brought her dogs up the ramp from the Bering Sea then took a little left onto Front Street and finished the final mile of the 41st Iditarod. She was dressed, not surpisingly, in her windsuit and decked out with an ear-to-ear grin. By the green attire …

As of 17:30 on March 16th, Cindy Gallea is a veteran of ten Iditarod Races. She’s sat out the last two years but found that she missed the time with her dogs on a trail characterized by its solitude and beauty. Even though she didn’t get her dogs out for as many training miles as …

Mikhail Telpin and his Chukchi dogs spent a little extra time under the burled arch this morning.  Telpin said that he’d heard from Quest mushers that Iditarod was easier.  After signing in and completing Iditarod 41, Telpin is a veteran of both races.  Mikhail said that Iditarod was equally as tough if not tougher than …