Iditarod
With a picture being worth a thousand words, I’m sharing these colorful Jeff Schultz photos. When it comes to capturing the race, Jeff is a master. Enjoy his shots from Galena and Nulato.
For the first time ever, the Insider Team is offering a 48 Hour Pass to see the exciting finish.
It’s the eve of daylight savings time. We need to adjust for the spring ahead time change. Iditarod stats are automatically adjusted so no need to wonder about how race stats deals with the change. The mushers won’t even notice as for them it’s just blocks of time – run six hours and rest six …
Ruby, located at mile 495 is the first Yukon River village on the northern route of Iditarod. Dave Poyzer, the Insider Guy with the still camera, is in Ruby. He supplies the pics for the Iditarod Photo Gallery. Jeff Schultz is out in Ruby too focusing on Faces of Iditarod but he has supplied me …
Veteran Iditarod musher Brent Sass (bib #27) of Eureka, Alaska, is the first to arrive at the Kaltag checkpoint at 2:36 a.m. with 12 dogs in harness. In doing so Sass, claims the Bristol Bay Native Corporation Fish First Award consisting of 25 pounds of fresh Bristol Bay salmon filets, $2,000 and a wood burned …
Ophir was a bustling place earlier in the week but just like back in the gold rush, everyone has come and gone. Back in the gold rush days, prospectors located gold along many of the creeks that flow into the Innoko River. In 1906, the miners named their town after the wealthy land of Ophir …
The race cannot pass through Ruby without remembering the late Emmitt Peters, AKA Yukon Fox. Peters of Athabascan descent was a life-long Ruby resident who distinguished himself as a very savvy dog man. He was a hunter, fisher and trapper and maintained a dog team to accomplish those subsistence tasks. Back in the early days …
Veteran Iditarod musher Brent Sass (bib #27), of Eureka, Alaska, is the first to arrive at the Ruby checkpoint at 5:57 a.m. today with 13 dogs in harness. In doing so, Sass claims The Lakefront Anchorage First Musher to the Yukon Award. The award consists of a five-course gourmet meal prepared by The Lakefront Anchorage …
Teams are spread out from McGrath at mile 311 to the Yukon River. Ruby sits at mile 495 and Brent Sass checked in just before 0600 then headed down the river to Galena. Traffic between Cripple and Ruby is heavy. The trail crew at Ruby will have plenty to do today as seventeen mushers are …
From McGrath all the way up to Cripple teams will be on the move. Possible by the very wee hours of the morning, somebody will be the first team to reach the Yukon River checkpoint of Ruby. Dan Carter, the race judge out at Cripple said they were expecting a ton of activity tonight. Brent …
