Are people in Nome always waiting at the finish line for mushers to arrive? Nope! But when a musher is about one mile away, a

Jessie Holmes did it! He was the first musher to guide his team under the Burled Arch in the wee hours of Friday morning. Of

This morning bib number 15, Jessie Holmes, was the first musher into White Mountain just as the sun was rising over the Niukluk River. While

In the Iditarod world, more than half of the remaining mushers have reached the coast! Your students might notice that mushers are staying an extra

Earlier today during a live feed update from Bruce Lee and Greg Heister, they were talking about how it could be beneficial for a musher

Today Kaltag was in the process of switching things over to prepare for the mushers to come back through a second time. It was a

The day was quiet in Kaltag, as most mushers left and are moving through the double checkpoints. All the mushers will come through Kaltag again

From the outside, it’s hard to understand what happens behind the scenes at a checkpoint. There’s a lot of prep work to get a checkpoint

We woke up to a few inches of snow in Ruby, which was a pleasant surprise! The town is situated on a hillside along the

Day 4! Today was busy at the Ruby checkpoint as mushers came and went on their way to Galena. It wasn’t a very cold day,