Photo Scrapbook

Photo: Road Closes for Mushers and Dogs

Original Posting Date:  Mar 13, 2011

Photo: What Does Yours Say?

This license plate was spotted at the Iditarod Restart.  If you were a musher, what license plate would you design for yourself? What other identification letters or numbers would help explain this sport?  What letters or numbers would help explain your favorite sport or your hobby? Design your own license plate.    Original Posting Date: …

Zoom Lens – Unalakleet Happenings

On the day Iditarod crowned its youngest champion ever, plenty of other things were going on three hundred miles away in the community of Unalakleet. There was a pie social at the Covenant Church. It was as much fun eating the pie as it was listening to people decide on what kind of pie to …

Zoom Lens – Baker follows Zirkle into McGrath

Eight hours after the PenAir Spirit of Alaska award was presented, thirty more teams have made their way into the checkpoint of McGrath. John Baker followed Aliy Zirkle by about half an hour. Baker, Zirkle and nearly the entire front half of the field continued right on to Takotna, 18 miles up the trail. It’s …

Zoom Lens – Bacon’s Acres Sunset

As the sun sets this evening, there are two days left before the start of the Junior Iditarod and only 10 days until the restart of Iditarod on Willow Lake. Right now it seems to be snowing all around us except for this break in the clouds to the west. Musher Kirk Barnum from Idaho …

Zoom Lens – Baker in UNK, the First of Many

The headlamp was visible for some distance. The light and the musher wearing it made steady progress toward the checker holding the clipboard. John Baker and eleven dogs marched into the Unalakleet checkpoint 5:04 Sunday morning. He was officially greeted by checker, Doug Katchatag and heartily welcomed by a few hundred villagers, family, friends as …

Zoom Lens – Yentna Station Roadhouse

There’s one checkpoint that both the Junior and Iditarod share – Yentna Station Roadhouse. The name is a bit strange in that the nearest road is more that 40 miles away! The only way to travel to Yentna in the winter is by plane, snowmachine or dog team. In summer you can add boat because …