Sunday morning in Unalakleet, a crowd gathers at the checkpoint, while multiple 4-wheelers and snowmachines head east into the sun to greet the first musher

As the first musher to reach Unalakleet, Nicolas Petit wins the Ryan Air Gold Coast Award.  Petit is a veteran musher from Girdwood, AK.  He

Peter Kaiser made Kaltag at 16:48 with 11 dogs in harness to earn the Bristol Bay Native Corporation Fish First Award.  Kaiser is a veteran

While many volunteers were grounded in McGrath and Unalakleet, a window opened for Jeff Schultz to fly to Eagle Island and I assume to Kaltag

Once the race has moved on from a checkpoint, such as McGrath, there’s a little more time to talk to people who live in the

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race runs through some of the most remote parts of Alaska only accessible by airplane. Thanks to sponsor Alaska Air

When you’re weathered in as I am here in McGrath and Jeff Schultz was in Takotna and Julien Schroder in Iditarod, we try to do

Mother Nature continues to keep everyone guessing as Iditarod moves through the interior on toward the coast.  I’m remembering a couple of days ago somebody

Iditarod Veteran, Jim Lanier, has authored a book called “Beyond Ophir.”  The title of his book describes exactly where the mushers are on Friday afternoon

Nicolas Petit (bib #20), of Girdwood, Alaska, is the first musher to arrive at the Anvik Checkpoint to earn the Lakefront Anchorage First Musher to