The Iditarod and the quest for speed Part III of III Ever since musher Rick Swenson’s epic, man-against-the-elements victory of 1991 when he went to the front of his dog […]
Ever faster
Seavey wins
Alaska sled dog sports were abuzz Friday with the news that the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race chief of drug testing is out, and three-time Iditarod champ Mitch Seavey, the oldest musher […]
Railroaded?
An informal panel that met for eight hours over the course of two-days in private in Fairbanks has upheld the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race decision banning musher Hugh Neff from […]
I-did-a-what?
News analysis The most telling observation about the problem today facing the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race comes midway through a December report from a consultant summarizing an anonymous survey earlier sent […]
Idit-a-doping
News analysis To hear Iditarod dog mushers of today tell it, nobody ever doped a dog in Alaska. Just ask them. They’ll give you an earful. No one ever culled a dog […]
The dog death news
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is long over and already near forgotten, and “Sled Dogs,” the controversial movie critical of the commercial use of sled dogs for racing and tours, has […]
Musher murdered
A Scottish dog musher with ties to Alaska and the global mushing scene has died in a bizarre murder in Finland. The BBC is reporting that 26-year-old Rebecca Johnson, who went […]
