With snow falling and the weather warming along the Bering Sea Coast, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race slogged past the COVID-19 worried village of Shaktoolik on Sunday night hours off the […]
Qrill’s Iditarod
Strange springs done
The sun was shining warmly on Alaska’s largest city Saturday, but in the shade it was still cold for March along the state’s gulf coast. Far to the north, a Norwegian musher […]
Great new fear
Alaska’s Last Great Race appeared headed toward a confrontation with America’s Great New Fear as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race moved toward the Bering Sea coast on Friday. Worried about the […]
Faster recovery
A decision by four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Lance Mackey to dose his team with a pain-relieving agent with possible mood-enhancing benefits is stirring a lively debate within the small […]
Perfect storm?
World events no one saw coming are taking the shine off the season when Alaska traditionally begins the steady, uplifting transition from the long, cold dark of winter into the season of […]
Fast Great Race
News analysis The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race roared through the Alaska Range on Monday with its old title fading in the slipstream. There is little doubt now that thanks to modern […]
Saved by the well
After the attack finally ended, after Iditarod Trail Invitational skier Greg Mills finally managed to retrieve enough warm clothes to stop his teeth from chattering and make his way down the trail […]
Get gone!
If Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is reading the New Yorker, he must now realize it’s time to resign, quit, thrown in the towel, run for […]
Look out!
Fat-tired cyclists and runners coming off Alaska’s most famous trail have a one-word warning for mushers about to head north Sunday in the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to Nome: Moose! […]
Danger trail
While Alaska begins the celebration leading up to the weekend kick off of the iconic Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, 64-year-old, musher Kirsten Bey is home recovering from serious injuries suffered after […]
