Iditarod
The race is all of 1 day old! We’ve got teams in Finger Lake, Rainy Pass and getting very close to Rohn. Yentna and Skwentna are back to their prerace populations who are attending to dismantling the checkpoint for another year. Up at the front of the pack, Nic Petit is leading ten other veterans …
Ryan Redington has crossed Willow Lake and climbs the bank to enjoy wooded trails ahead. Imagine what this sounds like. Brent Sass with Pink and Slater in lead along the wooded trails beyond Willow Lake. Imagine what this sounds like. We track mushers thanks to low tech dog booties and large safety pins. …
Jessie Holmes cruised into Finger Lake checkpoint at 04:02 Monday morning. Brent Sass was close behind at 04:08. Holmes parked his team. Sass spent enough time to chat with the vets, have his vet book signed and he went on down the trail a couple of miles to camp. Richie Diehl, Nicolas Petit and Mille …
Veteran Jessie Holmes, wearing bib #2 led the field of 33 mushers out on the trail for the fifty-first running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. I almost said the fifty-first trip to Nome but there was the Gold Trail Loop of 2021 that made the trip from Deshka Landing out to Iditarod and …
A standard marathon is 26.2 miles in length. Iditarod’s Southern Route is 998 miles long. That is pretty close to the length of 39 marathons. If you’ve ever met a marathoner at the finish line, the runner is spent. Even if you give your runner something to drink, a chunk of banana and an orange …
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the case of Iditarod photos, a person could study a picture for a very long time and find something new the next time around. Throughout the race, photographers David Poyzer and Siri Raitto will be populating the race photo gallery. There are two places to …
Lance Mackey, often referred to as the peoples champion, will be honored by the Iditarod Nation during the 11 mile Ceremonial run from 4th Avenue to Campbell Airstrip. A member of his family, wearing bib #1, will occupy the sled of Jr. Iditarod Champion, Emily Robinson gliding through the streets of Anchorage lined with thousands …
The Iditarod announced today that Capstone Family Medicine will be extending their Iditarod partnership. Capstone was an invaluable partner during the 2021 and 2022 races as their staff administered over 10,000 COVID tests to ensure delivery of the Iditarod’s COVID Prevention Plan and its objective of zero community transmission. Capstone’s healthcare team operating out of …
Race week is hectic or perhaps even chaotic but it’s organized and it’s exciting to be a part of. There is plenty to keep race fans busy during the week and it might include taking a turn on a Ferris wheel. For me, Iditarod begins on the last Saturday of February. Wait, wait you say! …
Musher start order set for Iditarod 51 Iditarod will again offer shuttle service to restart in Willow Anchorage, Alaska – A lively crowd filled up the Dena’ina Civic Convention Center for the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Mushers Banquet. The banquet is the largest fundraiser for the Iditarod Trail Committee, which …
