Photo Scrapbook
DeeDee Jonrowe came out to greet Jim Lanier at the burled arch today. It gave me an opportunity to congratulate her on placing in the top ten again and ask her a couple of questions about her 31st Iditarod. In her bright pink kusbuk with the huge Shell logo on the back DeeDee is rather …
Iditarod legend, Jim Lanier drove his typically all white dog team under the burled arch in Nome to be greeted by his son Jimmy, wife Anna and a copy of his newly published book, Beyond Ophir. On 3/14 at 12:08 under the burled arch was the first Lanier had seen his book in published form. …
Mike Ellis remembers watching the Iditarod on Wide World of Sports as a kid. If they still produced the television account of The Last Great Race, Ellis would be seeing himself and his majestic Siberian Huskies come across the finish line. Ellis, first of the breakfast trio, earned his coveted rookie belt buckle in 30th …
Folks gathered to welcome the musher and dog team. He was greeted with cheers, applause and the flash of cameras. The checker stepped forward to examine the mandatory musher gear, the dogs were counted, the arrival time was announced and the musher officially signed in. It was 22:37 on Tuesday and Louie Ambrose was checked …
Once the ski race finished and the sun was setting, there was quite a crew of mushers and canines enjoying Unalakleet hospitality. As the sky grew dark the temperature fell and the winds grew calm. The population of mushers and canines rose and fell in Unalakleet from sunset on Monday to sunrise on Tuesday. If …
For a while today Jessica Hendricks was the only musher parked on the frozen snow covered slough at the checkpoint. Then just before 14:00 Matt Failor arrived followed by Linwood Fiedler, Curt Perano, Kelly Maixner, Wade Marrs, Aaron Peck, Allen Moore and Paige Drobney. Fourteen other mushers have departed Kaltag to make their way along …
Lots of action on the slough over night and there’s plenty more to come today. As of breakfast on Monday, 25 teams have made the coast. Temperatures in the single digits below zero this morning are more typical of Iditarod. Unusual for the coast, the winds are rather light. Visibility is listed at ten miles …
How good it is to be where the action is! Mitch Seavey and Aaron Burmeister rolled into Unalakleet ahead of the afternoon deluge. Citizens of Unalakleet gathered on the slough in windy but not overly cold weather. They had cameras in hand to snap pictures and while waiting for the next team to arrive they …
Still waiting in McGrath for air transport to Unalakleet. My name is on the list for departure early this afternoon. Once again, the cooks and Wi-Fi are our best friends. Up far ahead of where I am, the front of the race is rather crowded. A musher should claim the Gold Coast Award before noon. …
Lots of transportation issues have volunteers holding in McGrath. The “official checkpoint” at the community center is buttoned up. For the most part, all the trail volunteers in McGrath have moved to a spot called the Café where Iditarod Logistics is located. The most populated Iditarod spot right now is the dropped dog lot where …
