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When the first Junior musher, Conway Seavey left Yentna Station at 02:08 the night sky was cloudy. At 04:45 when Nicole Forto, the final musher out of the checkpoint departed, the clouds disappeared, the stars shown brilliantly and as northern lights danced into the sky, an orange quarter moon rose over the tree lined riverbank …
I’m not talking about my best canine friend, SPOT, I’m talking about the GPS tracking device that Junior Iditarod and Iditarod mushers will be using while on the trail. In the past, the tracker that was attached to the Iditarod sled was the size and weight of a brick. It sent signals up to satellites …
Zach Steer shared his system for dressing and system for organizing his gear with junior mushers at a clinic on Thursday evening. Both Zach and his wife Anjanetta have run Iditarod and many other mid-distance races. He showed a short video of Anjanetta putting all the necessary gear on. It amounted to thirty-seven pieces, which …
Zoom Lens from Anchorage 2/19/14 by Sanka W. Dog The big news here is the announcement of where the race will start. With the lack of snow to cover the river ice, there was plenty of discussion about moving it way up north to Fairbanks. It was a unanimous decision by the ITC Board of …
For me Iditarod starts with the Junior Iditarod on the last weekend of February. The juniors are the future of The Last Great Race. Their starting banner is located on Knik Lake. It’s within shouting distance of the Redington Homestead. It’s a great way to annually remember Joe Redington, his work in founding the race …
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 …
With a stiff wind at his back, Mikhail Telpin and eleven Chukchi huskies made the burled arch. Wind driven snow was swirling down the street and around the chute. The Chukchi stopped a few feet short of the burled arch but in order to finish, the nose of the lead dog must cross under the …
As for the trip along the coast from Unalakleet, Angie said the wind at Golovin was enough to knock you over. A big gust would come along and I’d nearly get taken out sideways – WHAM! The dogs are lower to the ground they’re not affected as much but it takes good leaders to keep …
For two years in a row spectators have seen double in the chute on Front Street. Identical twins, Anna and Kristi Barington have come off the Bering Sea and approached the burled arch nearly side by side. Last year Anna’s lead dog broke the plane of the arch first by one minute. This year Kristi …
It’s just about high noon and Jim Lanier drives his team down Front Street to the burled arch. He was met by his wife Anna and their son Jimmy. Jimmy came into the shoot a little out of breath as he’d done double duty. He’d gone down the road about half a mile to catch …