Iditarod
Thursday morning finds “flurries” on the Iditarod trail. First a “flurry” of activity and second the snow type and that’s actually much heavier than “flurries” might suggest. Mushers are coming off the required 24-hour rest and are moving on the trail. Weather forecasts call for heavy snow from McGrath and points north including Cripple and …
Veteran musher Brent Sass (bib #27), of Eureka, Alaska, is the first musher to reach the Cripple checkpoint, the halfway point of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Sass arrived at 3:50 p.m. with 13 dogs in harness. By arriving first in Cripple, Sass wins the Dorothy G. Page Halfway Award, and has a choice …
As Wednesday draws to a close, we’re going to begin seeing some check marks in the 24-hour column of the standings. Aaron Burmeister was first to pull into McGrath. He originally was planning to move on to Ophir for the long rest but modified that plan. Other top contenders are also resting in McGrath and …
Mille Porsild pulled into McGrath last evening at 19:07 as one of twenty-two mushers to achieve the 311 mile mark on March 8th. Aaron Burmeister was the first to arrive at 17:41. Hanna Lyrek was the final musher of the day arriving at 23:51. McGrath is a popular spot for taking the long winter’s nap …
Anchorage, Alaska –Veteran musher Aaron Burmeister (bib #23), of Nome/Nenana, Alaska, was the first musher to reach the McGrath checkpoint at 5:41 p.m. today with 13 dogs in harness, winning the Alaska Air Transit Spirit of Iditarod Award. Burmeister was presented with handmade prizes created by McGrath residents. Burmeister received a pair of musher mitts …
It’s Tuesday evening and according to Insider race analysts Bruce Lee and Greg Heister, the two guys leading the pack – Brent Sass and Dallas Seavey are executing strategic moves as they make their way from Nikolai to McGrath that will set them up for the 24-hour required rest. Lee and Heister discussed many theories …
Jeff Schultz has been the Official Iditarod Photographer for years and years and more years. Over the past couple of races he’s shifted his focus (pun intended) from the active race photos that he’s so famous for to capturing photos of the people who are the race and the dogs who are the racers. His …
You are a serious Iditarod fan if the locations in your weather app include Skwentna and Nikolai amongst others like Ruby, Kaltag and Unalakleet. It’s the first thing I check in the morning and often the last thing I check at night. Early Tuesday morning there are twenty-eight teams out of Rohn heading to Nikolai. …
Starting tonight with happenings at the back of the pack. Julie Ahnen in bib#29 has just made Finger Lake where 11 other mushers are resting. Most of them are rookies but veterans Jeff King, Lisbet Norris and Apayauq Reitan are part of the group camped out in front of Winter Lake Lodge owned and operated …
Dense: closely compacted, and that pretty much describes the flow of teams through Yentna and Skwentna that took place on the first night of Iditarod 50. Those check points are set up and staffed to handle the dense traffic. There are many checkers, there are many vets and the whole set up of the checkpoint …
