At mid-morning in mid-March, the temperature along the frozen, snow-covered Knik River just north of Anchorage remained in the single digits. None of the fat bikers who flocked north from Alaska’s largest […]
The places we go
A new Iditarod distance?
The exact length of Alaska’s Iditarod Trail has been the subject of debate for years now. The distance from Anchorage to Nome started at more than 1,100 miles, shrunk to 900 miles […]
Iditarod season is over
Austrian hiker Klaus Schweinberger strolled into Nome on Tuesday afternoon to bring to an end the official season of adventure on the Iditarod National Historic Trail. The last to finish the Iditarod […]
Last dog to Nome
The last husky to reach the end of the Iditarod Trail arrived in Nome on Wednesday night, but this one was riding a man-sled instead of pulling a dog sled, and it […]
Iditarod record earned
You can’t begin to do what Tim Hewitt just did in walking 1,000 miles across the godforsaken, frozen wilderness of Alaska in less than 20 days to set a record in 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 […]
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 […]
