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Just like all the people in Nome, I’m watching the tracker and waiting for the first musher to arrive on St. Patrick’s Day. It’s going to be a close one. Tracker shows veteran Martin Buser and rookie Joe Taylor running at mile 964. Now granted with 5,280 feet in a mile they could be nearly …
Shortly after midnight of March 16, Ryan Redington claimed the 9th position in the 50th Iditarod. Ryan arrived in Nome at 00:26. His 9th place finish makes three consecutive top 10’s for Ryan. He has completed his eighth race out of sixteen attempts. His average race speed was 4.28 mph with a total elapsed time …
Ruby, located at mile 495 is the first Yukon River village on the northern route of Iditarod. Dave Poyzer, the Insider Guy with the still camera, is in Ruby. He supplies the pics for the Iditarod Photo Gallery. Jeff Schultz is out in Ruby too focusing on Faces of Iditarod but he has supplied me …
When mushers leave Elim, they head along the shore to a spot called Walla Walla. Here the trail crosses a peninsula and climbs over the Kwiktalik Mountains. The highest point that the mushers reach is 1,000 feet above sea level at Little McKinley Trail expert, Don Bowers, says this the toughest climb on the last …
Dear Friends, We know that sled dogs helped get mail and supplies to gold miners in the 1800s and early 1900s. Did you know that they also helped transport eggs? The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., has a display that talks about eggs being part of the Alaskan mail system! It was difficult …
Elim, an Inupaig village of 310 people is situated on the south shore of the Seward Peninsula or north shore of Norton Bay. Elim (EE-lum) is 100 miles east of Nome as the crow flies. Like all bush villages, Elim isn’t connected by road to the rest of Alaska. The only way to travel into …
In the “lower 48”, traveling throughout the country is something that can easily be taken for granted. For long distances, air travel is the preferred way to go, but for everything else, most people tend to travel by car. The highway system that crisscrosses our nation gives us the ability to drive almost anywhere …
Continuing one of my themes from last year, I wanted to start this year by looking deeper at the start of the race. The premise of this post actually brings to mind 2 separate misconceptions about the Last Great Race. The first one being why the race was started. Many think that the Iditarod …
Susan Smith is not only a long-time Iditarod volunteer, but she is also a former Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ finalist. She is a resident of the small Alaskan town of Takotna, and serves as both the principal and elementary teacher at the Takotna Community School. During her years as a volunteer she has …
Due to COVID-19 mitigation protocols, the Iditarod has set the starting order for the 49th running of the Last Great Race on Earth using a digital order generator to randomly select names for the official start order, taking into account the two separate draw batches based on when mushers signed up for the race. “This …
