Sometimes it is hard to avoid wondering if the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is trying to kill the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Last year the event, which likes to […]
Idit-a-mistake
Global warming reprieve?
As the day draws close for the start of Alaska’s biggest winter sporting event — the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race — the National Weather Service is promising a climatic shift back […]
Running man jogs on
UPDATE, 4 March 2016 — David Johnson reached McGrath this morning to make it four wins in a row in the foot class of the Iditarod Trail Invitational. ON THE FROZEN […]
Iditarod Trail a mess
YENTNA RIVER — Organizers of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race were Wednesday doing their best to make a decent trail for the weekend start of the so-called “Last Great Race,” but […]
Iditacyclist nears victory
Photo: Tim Bernston on his way to ITI victory UPDATE: Tim Bernston arrived in McGrath at 1:45 p.m. on March 1 to win the Invitational. He became only the fourth cyclist to […]
Snow slows Iditarod cyclists
PUNTILLA LAKE — On a spectacular night with the stars shining bright overhead and a waning gibbous moon ducking in and out of a band of clouds along the southern horizon, the […]
Wet, fast Iditarod Cyle Race
SKWENTA — As darkness settled over the Alaska Range Sunday night, the cyclists at the front of the Iditarod Trail Invitational were once again racing at faster-than-husky pace toward the tiny Interior […]
Mushy Iditarod Trail Beckons
KNIK — Alaska is rich in stories of adventurers frostbitten and frozen along the fabled Iditarod Trail from Seward to Nome, but of late there seems often a strange, new weather concern: […]
Made in Alaska Fad
Many of the gang of trailblazers who conspired to make fat bikes the fad they are today gather Saturday in Anchorage to discuss how an old idea — a bike with balloon […]
The search for Nephi ends
Hiker Nephi Soper joined the many gone missing in the Alaska wild on Wednesday. Hopes of finding the 26-year-old specialist in the Alaska National Guard had been dimming with the passing of […]
