Girdwood musher Nicolas Petit on Tuesday led the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race into the tiny, Kuskokwim River community of McGrath more than two hours ahead of the pace set in […]
Man beats dog
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 […]
The tough guy
For more than 34 days and 1,800 miles from the end of January into March, Jeff Oatley pushed and rode his fat bike ever west and north on the route of the […]
Iditarod unbelievable
At the end of the Iditarod Trail in Nome late Friday night, there was no money, no fame, no real glory for 61-year-old Tim Hewitt, only the personal satisfaction in doing […]
Near record Iditarod
Strange how it is that paradigm shifts redefine the possible. Up until a couple years ago, it was thought that if someone covered the 1,000 miles from Knik to Nome along the […]
Mushy Iditarod Trail Beckons
KNIK — Alaska is rich in stories of adventurers frostbitten and frozen along the fabled Iditarod Trail from Seward to Nome, but of late there seems often a strange, new weather concern: […]
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 […]
Out of the land time forgot
FAIRBANKS — A thousand miles after his adventure began, the outlaw cyclist Jeff Oatley pedaled out of the vast, white, nothingness of the upper Yukon River valley into Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada […]
