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Time to make public my top ten for Iditarod XLIII. I’ve been thinking about this since last June when musher sign-up began. Then one has to take into account mushers who’ve chosen to do the distance double and run the Yukon Quest too. From there it’s a lot of speculation, weighing facts & figures …
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Meet the 2015 IditaRiders! The 2015 IditaRiders are in for a real treat as they take to the sleds for the ride of a lifetime along the first eleven miles of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race! Meet them here, and be sure to cheer for them and their mushers and teams on Saturday! *We’ll …
Driving back from the Iditarod Banquet last night it was raining pretty hard. Waking up this morning, I had hoped, that the rain miraculously had changed to snow over night, opening the curtains, revealed that did not happen. Real bummer. Fairbanks has received more snow last night and it is currently snowing along the Yukon …
Interviewing the Future Champion
While dinner is being served downstairs in the Dena’ina Centre, upstairs the insider pre-race Musher Interviews are conducted. To be invited to those, means the musher is considered to be one of the Top contenders. If you have no subscription to the Insider yet, this is a good time. The interviews are pretty much uploaded live. …
If you enjoy following the Iditarod, you will enjoy it more by following the race with a Fantasy Iditarod Team. Just before I left my students in Iowa, we held our own draft for Iditarod mushers. With their team names created and their teams selected, my students are geared up for the race to begin. …
It is time to say good-bye to our young students of Grayling and head up the Yukon river to Eagle Island. This leg of our journey will be approximately 62 miles and will take mushers between 6-9 hours to complete. This section of the trail can be pretty wretched with the blustery wind and bitter …
Last year the 2014 finish was one of the most exciting Iditarod finishes in the 42 year history of the race. What will this year’s finish bring? Will two time champ Dallas Seavey repeat? Will Aliy Zirkle claim her first victory after finishing second the previous three years? Will Jeff King claim his fifth …
Better late than never. Sorry for not being very timely with the report from the Copper Basin 300. I am not entirely sure how I managed to do it, but right after the race I came down pretty hard with a stomach bug and was out of commission for a bit. Nope, I did not …
Long time no hear. Hello from the Armchair Musher. I am back on the runners…. and in the armchair too. While much of the continental US has seen low temperatures, Alaska has once again seen a relatively mild winter. Specially the ” Valley ” mushers around Knik- Wasilla- Willow have been hard hit. Talking to …
