Musher Details
Michelle Phillips
Bib Number: 30Hometown: 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
2026 Standings
| Checkpoint | Time In | Dogs In | Time Out | Dogs Out | Rest Time | Previous | Layover | Status | Distance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enroute Time | Speed (mph) | 8hr | 24hr | ||||||||
| Willow | 3/08 14:56:00 | 16 | |||||||||
| Yentna | 3/08 18:42:00 | 16 | 3/08 18:50:00 | 16 | 0h 8m | 3h 46m | 11.15 | 42 | |||
| Skwentna | 3/09 00:17:00 | 16 | 3/09 00:32:00 | 16 | 0h 15m | 5h 27m | 5.50 | 30 | |||
| Finger Lake | 3/09 05:31:00 | 16 | 3/09 10:05:00 | 16 | 4h 34m | 4h 59m | 8.03 | 40 | |||
| Rainy Pass | 3/09 13:40:00 | 16 | 3/09 17:31:00 | 15 | 3h 51m | 3h 35m | 8.37 | 30 | |||
| Rohn | 3/09 21:23:00 | 15 | 3/09 21:46:00 | 14 | 0h 23m | 3h 52m | 9.05 | 35 | |||
| Nikolai | 3/10 11:33:00 | 14 | 3/10 16:29:00 | 14 | 4h 56m | 13h 47m | 5.44 | 75 | |||
| McGrath | 3/10 22:32:00 | 14 | 3/10 22:47:00 | 14 | 0h 15m | 6h 3m | 7.93 | 48 | |||
| Takotna | 3/11 01:10:00 | 14 | 3/12 01:25:00 | 13 | 24h 15m | 2h 23m | 7.55 |  |
18 | ||
| Ophir | 3/12 03:55:00 | 13 | 3/12 04:06:00 | 13 | 0h 11m | 2h 30m | 9.20 | |
23 | ||
| Cripple | 3/12 19:21:00 | 13 | 3/13 00:35:00 | 12 | 5h 14m | 15h 15m | 4.79 | |
73 | ||
