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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
A beautifully brutal race
FAIRBANKS — Is it possible a truly nice guy can win the human-powered Iditarod Trail Invitational — the hardest and one of the most potentially dangerous races in the triumvirate of beautifully […]
If you’re going to Canada: Do not ride your bike
The United States and Canada once shared one of the friendliest borders in the world. No more, it would seem.
The tough guy
After the beat down the frozen Iditarod Trail put on Pennsylvanian Tim Hewitt last year, a lesser man would have taken his swollen, frostbit fingers and his red, puffed-up-like-potato feet home, plopped […]
