Iditarod finish controversy brewing Fifty years on from the first running of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, a Redington has finally won in a 2023 version of the event that […]
Rabbit redux
Iditarod meltdown
AP pushes wild Alaska global warming claim The difference between journalism today and that of a decade or two back was pretty well writ by the once-reserved Associated Press on Thursday […]
Ever faster
The Iditarod and the quest for speed Part III of III Ever since musher Rick Swenson’s epic, man-against-the-elements victory of 1991 when he went to the front of his dog […]
Changing times
A withering Iditarod faces an unknown future Part one of a series Forty years ago, a young Athabascan dog driver named Howard Albert from the village of Ruby on the Yukon River […]
Cryptic crypto
Where, oh where went the Iditacoins? Nine months ago, as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was nearing its finish in Nome, race organizers unveiled this new cryptocurrency with big claims. “IditaCoin […]
Heroes and villains
Lance Mackey, the four-time winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race who lived his life fast and loose and broke rules both written and unwritten, is dead at the age of […]
Never too old
Former Olympic cyclist Lindsey Gauld from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada was near 90 miles north on the Iditarod Trail at Skwentna today trying to set a record to be admired in these days […]
PR reordered
ExxonMobil’s departure as a sponsor of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race this week might have come as a surprise to some fans of the self-identified Last Great Race, but it […]
Down and out
One of those long-hidden stories known to many familiar with the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race went public Thursday when it was revealed to the world that four-time champ Lance Mackey from […]
Mean mother
With more dog mushers needing rescue on Friday and some competitors in the muscle-powered Iditarod Trail Invitational (ITI) pulled off the route, 2020 will go down as the year Mother Nature bit […]
