Iditarod races hit Ruby The winter, crossroad community of Ruby, Alaska – where the Iditarod Trail meets the frozen Yukon River was a busy place today with Norway’s dynamic, dog-driving […]
Yukon convergence
Last survivors
Human-powered Iditarod stalls And then there were but seven left as the Iditarod Trail Invitational 1000 from Knik to Nome stalled out Thursday on the edge of the vast and unpeopled nothingness […]
A missing trail
Iditarod Trail Invitational sputtering and stalling As darkness settled over the vast, desolate, bitterly cold and once-again wild heart of Alaska known to the territory as the “Inland Empire,” a lone Irishman […]
Changing times
A withering Iditarod faces an unknown future Part one of a series Forty years ago, a young Athabascan dog driver named Howard Albert from the village of Ruby on the Yukon River […]
Worst of times
Beaten by weather too warm, Donald Kane – a 57-year-old veteran of the 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail from Knik to Nome – is headed home to Australia. Reached by telephone in the […]
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 […]
Journalism has to get better
The media have a credibility problem, and the reason is simple: There are too many people writing on topics about which they know absolutely nothing. They might as well just be making […]
