Update: Dick Wilmarth passed away on March 21 surrounded by family. He joined a growing list of other legendary Iditarod mushers forever, as it has been said of Joe Redington, “on the […]
The tough guy
More dope
As if the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race didn’t have enough trouble in the wake of the revelation that four-time champ Dallas Seavey had a doped dog-team in Nome last year, a […]
Seavey cleared?
This is a developing story; it was last updated 7 p.m. on February 14 A crisis-management firm representing four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Dallas Seavey is claiming “definitive proof” […]
Iditarod meltdown
The most tumultuous year in the roller-coasting, 45-year history of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is stumbling toward the March 3 start of Alaska’s biggest sporting event with no end to […]
One woman’s wilderness
The best neighborhood bar in Alaska nestles in the spruce trees on the shore of a 4-mile-long lake, near 400-feet high in the foothills of the Alaska Range about 80 miles northwest […]
I-did-a-what?
News analysis The most telling observation about the problem today facing the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race comes midway through a December report from a consultant summarizing an anonymous survey earlier sent […]
Iditarod in danger
Alaska’s “Last Great Race” – the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race – is on the verge of losing the support of both its competitors and sponsors and could collapse, a consultant to […]
State of misogyn
The first and to date only woman to win the 1,000-mile, Yukon-Quest International Sled Dog Race, arguably Alaska’s toughest ultramarathon, and a three-time runner-up in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Aliy […]
Idit-a-doping
News analysis To hear Iditarod dog mushers of today tell it, nobody ever doped a dog in Alaska. Just ask them. They’ll give you an earful. No one ever culled a dog […]
Saboteurs and villains
Two months have passed since four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champ Seavey hired a high-power, San Francisco crisis-management firm to probe who doped his dog team in Nome last year, […]
