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Insider interviews with mushers today in McGrath has revealed a common thread – mashed potatoes. If they had been talking about dinner that would have been a good thing but they weren’t. The mushers were talking about the trail – soft trail that slowed teams down heading into Nikolai and again from Nikolai to McGrath. …
Emily Robinson, age 16 from Nenana, Alaska, has claimed her third consecutive Jr. Iditarod Championship! Call it hat trick or three-peat, it puts her in an elite class of Jr. Iditarod mushers as there is only one other musher to claim three consecutive victories. Tim Osmar claimed his three-peat in 1982, 83 & 84. In 2022, …
According to a study by busyteacher.org, teachers make 1500 decisions per day related to their work in the classroom. The role of educator, at every level, involves informing, assessing, administrating, facilitating, and de-facto parenting. All day long we make choices – and the heart of these decisions is our responsibility to our students. SEL:Snack posts …
If you read my post from yesterday, this is really the continuation of my amazing day yesterday. Let’s attempt to do this in chronological order… After being taken to the airport yesterday with Kathy Chapoton and Sean William’s dad, I was actually able to hop on a flight with IAF pilot, Wes Erb. This …
While front runners Brent Sass and Dallas Seavey rest in White Mountain, there are eight fellows with dog teams resting in Koyuk, 94-miles back down the trail. There’s quite a distance between the front runners and the rest of the top 10. But really there’s nothing that says one of the teams that’s traversing Norton …
Teams are spread out from McGrath at mile 311 to the Yukon River. Ruby sits at mile 495 and Brent Sass checked in just before 0600 then headed down the river to Galena. Traffic between Cripple and Ruby is heavy. The trail crew at Ruby will have plenty to do today as seventeen mushers are …
Today is a day that I will not soon forget. I got to meet the 2022 Winter Education Conference attendees, I spent a lot of time with former Teachers on the Trail™, and then I attended a special banquet for the “Old Iditarod Gang”. This event was geared to those who were involved in the …
This evening was the Iditarod XLVII Awards Banquet at the Nome Recreation center. The intent of this event is to recognize the current finishers of the 2019 Iditarod and also to award several of them for various accomplishments while being on the trail. You must remember that the race is not over until the last …
Jason Campeau has made Nome in 12 days, 6 hours and 49 minutes to claim 30th place in the 2019 Iditarod. Campeau was very happy to complete his third Iditarod. Jason is a Yukon Quest and Iditarod veteran. He was slated to run both races in 2018 but was injured in the Quest and was …
Noah Pereria has left Unalakleet with 12 very happy dogs. They were all on their feet with tails flagging and ready when the boss pulled the snow hook. Before leaving they moved over to investigate the new team belonging to Lisbet Norris that had just come into the checkpoint. Noah lined his team out and …
