No rest awaited the weary as the fat-tired bikes of the Iditarod Trail Invitational on Tuesday rolled into the remote checkpoint of Rohn deep in the Alaska Range. Colorado’s Neil Beltchenko, an […]
Gang of three
Idit-a-trudge
If you think you had a rough night, forget it and turn your attention to the leaders of Alaska’s Iditarod Trail Invitational, the world’s toughest winter race. They spent most of […]
Iditarod grueling
Things were not so happy as competitors in the Iditarod Trail Invitational, the toughest Iditarod race, wallowed through deep, sugary snow on Monday night high in the Happy Valley of the Alaska […]
Iditarod hardmen
Update: Defending champ Tim Bernston leads the race into The Perrin’s Rainy Pass Lodge with two-time winner Jay Petervary and Neil Beltchenko close on his tail. As dawn broke over the Alaska […]
For the dogs
Commentary Frank Turner is a 69-year-old musher from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada with a new idea – a radical new idea – to make life better for the dogs in Alaska’s two […]
Whose fault is it?
Commentary Updated: This story was updated on Feb. 14 to include a 2007 dog death in the team of then rookie Quest musher Brent Sass. For the second year in a row, Eureka’s […]
Last Great Race
Tough Iditarod Trail
deemed “unsafe”
Iditarod frets snow
With 14 inches of snow blanketing the Iditarod Trail at Puntilla Lake on the south side of the Alaska Range and 6- to 8-inches on the ground at Rohn on the north […]
Idita-Rod passes
UPDATED The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has lost its most benevolent fan, Anchorage Chrysler Dodge Jeep president Rod Udd. He was 78 years old and had been struggling with health issues […]
Coming in 2017
Most journalists like to end the year looking back because, well, it’s easy: Cobble together some old stories; throw them online; and go drink. At craigmedred.news, however, we don’t like […]
