On a comfortably warm Saturday in the urban comfort of Alaska’s largest city, the stars of the legendary Iditarod Trail staged their annual sled dog show for the cameras, the commentators, the […]
Idit-a-grunt
Mind power
As is usually the case, the remote Yentna Station Roadhouse just off the Alaska road system was warm and inviting on Sunday night. Out on the frozen river, however, the temperature was dropping past […]
Idit-a-speed
Across the big empty to the north of the Alaska Range, 33-year-old Tyson Flaharty, the apparent heir to a rich legacy of powerhouse Fairbanks cyclists, was burning up the Iditarod Trail […]
Chasing quiet
Out in the dark and minus-5 degree cold settling onto Alaska’s deserted Yentna River on Sunday night, adventure cyclist Jay Petervary was for a change free. Free from the internet. […]
Common denominator
The north’s fastest Iditarod Trail race – the 2000-mile Iron Dog – was parked in the remote city of Nome on Wednesday celebrating its arrival at the outpost on the […]
The few, the strong
An Alaska endurance competition so hard that even Iditarod Trail dog mushers think the entrants a little nuts has been crowned the hardest race in the world by the country’s biggest […]
A winner
The pedaling publisher from Colorado rolled into the Kuskokwim River outpost of McGrath on Wednesday afternoon to win the 350-mile version of the Iditarod Trail Invitational. He promptly dived under warm sheets. […]
Unbroken trail
Coloradoan fat-tire cyclist Neil Beltchenko and others were out in what used to be the Farewell Burn to the north of Alaska Range on Tuesday being reminded of one thing that […]
Pedaling publisher
A blogger from somebody’s basement was leading Alaska’s premier fat bike race into the Alaska Range on Monday. OK, maybe somebody more than a blogger. Thirty-year-old Neil Beltchenko from Crested Butte, Colo. […]
McGrath happy man
After the cold, the wind, the sideways blowing snow and lots and lots and lots of bad trail, Idaho’s Jay Petervary pedaled his fat-tired bike into the tiny, Interior Alaska community of […]
