Pounding out speeds of 5 to 6 mph, a trio of fat-tired cyclists at the front of the Iditarod Trail Invitational powered up the Yukon River Friday morning leaving nothing but good […]
An Alaska sidewalk
All cracked up
Before ice-covered Portage Lake east of Alaska’s largest city came alive this week, skater Paxson Woelber heard the ominous crack of a glacier near its head as did the acquaintance standing […]
Worst of times
Beaten by weather too warm, Donald Kane – a 57-year-old veteran of the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail from Knik to Nome – is headed home to Australia. Reached by telephone in the […]
Man beats dog
Girdwood musher Nicolas Petit on Tuesday led the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race into the tiny, Kuskokwim River community of McGrath more than two hours ahead of the pace set in […]
Idit-a-grunt
On a comfortably warm Saturday in the urban comfort of Alaska’s largest city, the stars of the legendary Iditarod Trail staged their annual sled dog show for the cameras, the commentators, the […]
No it didn’t
Forty-one years ago, a now defunct newspaper – the Anchorage Times – declared the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was created to “commemorate the historic trip made by 25 mushers to deliver […]
Mind power
As is usually the case, the remote Yentna Station Roadhouse just off the Alaska road system was warm and inviting on Sunday night. Out on the frozen river, however, the temperature was dropping past […]
The winner
This is a developing story; check back for more. Blue skies and a warming sun were smiling on Fairbank’s Tyson Flaharty as he rode into the outpost community of McGrath on Tuesday […]
Idit-a-speed
Across the big empty to the north of the Alaska Range, 33-year-old Tyson Flaharty, the apparent heir to a rich legacy of powerhouse Fairbanks cyclists, was burning up the Iditarod Trail […]
Chasing quiet
Out in the dark and minus-5 degree cold settling onto Alaska’s deserted Yentna River on Sunday night, adventure cyclist Jay Petervary was for a change free. Free from the internet. […]
