Musher Details

Michelle Phillips
Bib Number: 14Hometown: Ten Mile, YT, CANADA
Website: http://www.tagishlakekennel.com
Biography
Michelle Phillips, 56, (Veteran) lives in Ten Mile, Yukon Territory, Canada. She owns and operates Tagish Lake Kennel with Ed Hopkins, also an Iditarod finisher. Together they care for and race about 35 dogs. Michelle’s is a nine-time Yukon Quest and eleven-time Iditarod veteran, she’s won the Yukon Quest 300 twice, she’s raced the Percy De Wolfe, the Kobuk 440, the Klondike 300, the Cantwell Classic, the Gin Gin 200 (winning and breaking a record, too), the Denali Doubles, Taiga 300, the Paul Johnson Race, and the Copper Basin 300. She says, “I love running dogs and I look forward to traveling down the beautiful Iditarod trail.”
Website: http://www.tagishlakekennel.com
Social Media: Tagish Lake Kennel
2025 Standings
| Checkpoint | Time In | Dogs In | Time Out | Dogs Out | Rest Time | Previous | Layover | Status | Distance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enroute Time | Speed (mph) | 8hr | 24hr | ||||||||
| Fairbanks | 3/03 11:24:00 | 16 | |||||||||
| Nenana | 3/03 16:39:00 | 16 | 3/03 19:49:00 | 16 | 3h 10m | 5h 15m | |||||
| Manley | 3/04 09:33:00 | 16 | 3/04 09:39:00 | 16 | 0h 6m | 13h 44m | 6.19 | 85 | |||
| Tanana | 3/04 21:48:00 | 16 | 3/04 21:54:00 | 16 | 0h 6m | 12h 9m | 5.35 | 65 | |||
| Ruby | 3/05 22:44:00 | 16 | 3/06 03:45:00 | 15 | 5h 1m | 24h 50m | 4.71 | 117 | |||
| Galena | 3/06 09:50:00 | 15 | 3/06 14:25:00 | 15 | 4h 35m | 6h 5m | 8.22 | 50 | |||
| Nulato | 3/06 20:20:00 | 15 | 3/07 21:00:00 | 14 | 24h 40m | 5h 55m | 8.62 | 51 | |||
| Kaltag 1 | 3/08 00:58:00 | 14 | 3/08 01:03:00 | 14 | 0h 5m | 3h 58m | 9.08 | 36 | |||
| Eagle Island 1 | 3/08 13:28:00 | 14 | 3/08 18:48:00 | 14 | 5h 20m | 12h 25m | 5.64 | 70 | |||
| Grayling 1 | 3/09 03:12:00 | 14 | 3/09 08:05:00 | 12 | 4h 53m | 7h 24m | 7.57 | 56 | |||
| Anvik | 3/09 11:06:00 | 12 | 3/09 11:07:00 | 12 | 0h 1m | 3h 1m | 6.96 | 21 | |||
| Shageluk | 3/09 15:48:00 | 12 | 3/09 23:53:00 | 11 | 8h 5m | 4h 41m | 5.98 | 28 | |||
| Grayling 2 | 3/10 04:08:00 | 11 | 3/10 08:27:00 | 11 | 4h 19m | 4h 15m | 6.59 | 28 | |||
| Eagle Island 2 | 3/10 20:56:00 | 11 | 3/10 21:02:00 | 11 | 0h 6m | 12h 29m | 4.49 | 56 | |||
| Kaltag 2 | 3/11 10:19:00 | 11 | 3/11 16:09:00 | 11 | 5h 50m | 13h 17m | 5.27 | 70 | |||
| Unalakleet | 3/12 06:51:00 | 11 | 3/12 06:57:00 | 10 | 0h 6m | 14h 42m | 5.51 | 81 | |||
| Shaktoolik | 3/12 17:45:00 | 10 | 3/12 19:18:00 | 10 | 1h 33m | 10h 48m | 3.89 | 42 | |||
| Koyuk | 3/13 01:49:00 | 10 | 3/13 07:07:00 | 9 | 5h 18m | 6h 31m | 7.67 | 50 | |||
| Elim | 3/13 13:02:00 | 9 | 3/13 16:35:00 | 9 | 3h 33m | 5h 55m | 8.45 | 50 | |||
| White Mountain | 3/13 23:05:00 | 9 | 3/14 07:12:00 | 9 | 8h 7m | 6h 30m | 7.54 | 49 | |||
| Safety | 3/14 13:47:00 | 9 | 3/14 13:47:00 | 9 | 0h 0m | 6h 35m | 7.44 | 49 | |||
| Nome | 3/14 16:51:39 | 9 | 3h 4m | 7.17 | 22 | ||||||