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The 2016 IditaRiders are in for the ride of a lifetime as they head out on the first eleven miles of this year’s Iditarod race! Meet them here and make sure to cheer for them and their mushers on March 5th! IditaRider… All About… Riding With… Pam Adkins Pam is from North Tustin in …
Education K-9 reporter, Zuma, has brought a new voice to the Education Portal. The new voice belongs to Sled Dog Ed U. Cation. Sled Dog Ed will share ideas for teachers on using Iditarod as a theme for delivering standards based curriculum in their classrooms. Sled Dog Ed joins the rest of Zuma’s team, Gypsy, …
A Weekend of Racing
The 2016 Mushing season is in full swing. This weekend there are 3 mid distance races throughout Alaska, the Gin Gin 200, Northern Lights 300 and Two Rivers 200. All of them are qualifying races for the Yukon Quest and Iditarod. Each race is distinct in location, the Gin Gin the most remote race along …
Racing musings, Kusko 300
Hello Race fans, The first major mid distance races of the 2016 Winter season are in full swing. Last weekend the Copper Basin 300 wrapped up in Glennallen. That race ended with the defending Champion Allen Moore losing his title to youngster Matt Hall, 23. Matt is young by age, yet he has much more …
Twenty-seven year old Ryne Olson has registered for the 2016 Iditarod. Olson completed her rookie Iditarod run in 2012. Since then she’s competed in the Yukon Quest 300 mile event and in 2015 she added the Yukon Quest 1,000 miles to her list of accomplishments. Use this link to view the Insider interview with Ryne …
Dog Training Time
Hello Iditarod fans. Good thing that summer is over, right? October has arrived. That means dog team training time has arrived in earnest for those teams, signed up to compete in Iditarod 44. In some parts of Alaska the end of September has offered some very early snow. Fairbanks has received 2 major snow storms …
The tracker foretold the story of what would happen on Front Street between race veteran Linwood Fiedler and race rookie Ben Harper. Through the satellite tracking device we could see the two markers a short distance apart on the screen. The next update, the markers would be closer, the next update showed the rear marker …
Jeff King was clowning around in Elim, all in a good mood, despite just being passed again while resting by Joar Leifseth Ulsom. His dogs were resting in the plentiful sunshine and were enjoying another meal Jeff offered them. The 4 time Champ was in no hurry. We hit the trail not really expecting to …
Seavey Dynasty?
When I wrote about the motivation to do well in Iditarod, the reason to push real hard,other than the pure will to win, at the beginning of the race, I wrote about the race within the race, of the elder Seavey and the younger Seavey both having 2 championships each. And now they are in …
Mitch Seavey is off the sea ice and he was sure glad to be here. ” Where were you today Sebastian, why did you not pass me today? ” With that he means that he could have used a trailbreaker today. What Mitch did not know yet, as he will get a printed out stats …
