The Iditamob of more than 100 who left Knik on Feb. 22 is now down to a diehard half-dozen/Spencer Martin, Facebook Iditarod Invitational resumes at last Almost everything in and about America’s […]
The Stubborn Six
Musher to watch
Iditarod’s expeditionary excitement An “even more exciting” version of the ‘Last Great Race’ left civilization Sunday on the 1,000-mile run north to Nome, or so says the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. […]
Tough folks
The dogless Iditarod marches north America might today be facing a serious fitness crisis, but if you have any concerns about the total demise of tough people in these unUnited States, turn […]
Trail tales
The “Last Toughtest Race” underway With minimal fanfare, what has become the Iditarod Trail’s biggest sporting event launched north on the trail Sunday, a day after the winners of the second biggest […]
Alaska B4UDie
Land of otherworldly adventures KNIK GLACIER – Standing at the face of a 125-square-mile river of ice on Saturday, talking to public-minded businessman Mark Johnson (yes, it is possible to be […]
Never too old
Former Olympic cyclist Lindsey Gauld from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada was near 90 miles north on the Iditarod Trail at Skwentna today trying to set a record to be admired in these days […]
COVID’s upside?
What if one of the side effects of the SARS-Co-V-2 pandemic was to make some people healthier? Crazy as it sounds, there is some reason to believe this could be happening. The […]
A wild life
Cancer has claimed Dan Gabryszak, a backwoods Renaissance man who built a life for himself and his family along the Yentna River north of Anchorage when it was still a wilderness a […]
Pushothon?
As 78 stalwart souls prepare to head north along the historic Iditarod Trail today, Mother Nature looks to be organizing a truly Alaska welcome. The frigid cold that had worried some rookie […]
Close call
Updated Jan. 29, 2020: The Jeep has been freed. A small army of fellow four-wheel-drive adventurers helped pull it from the ice on Tuesday. Colby Davis shot an excellent video is […]
