Update: Dick Wilmarth passed away on March 21 surrounded by family. He joined a growing list of other legendary Iditarod mushers forever, as it has been said of Joe Redington, “on the […]
The tough guy
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 […]
Idit-a-war
With Dallas Seavey of Willow, the four-time champion of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, now pushing to overthrow the board of the non-profit organization that runs Alaska’s Last Great Race, one […]
Iditarod hit again
California animal-rights activists are claiming credit for inflicting another financial blow on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals – says State Farm Insurance […]
Is harder safer?
An Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race that moved north of the Alaska Range for a Fairbanks restart this year because of bad trail was clearly kinder to mushers, but with three dogs […]
Ever-changing I-rod
Part II of a series Who was first to put a coat on a short-haired dog in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race appears unclear. If you know, feel free […]
Gang of three
No rest awaited the weary as the fat-tired bikes of the Iditarod Trail Invitational on Tuesday rolled into the remote checkpoint of Rohn deep in the Alaska Range. Colorado’s Neil Beltchenko, an […]
Iditarod grueling
Things were not so happy as competitors in the Iditarod Trail Invitational, the toughest Iditarod race, wallowed through deep, sugary snow on Monday night high in the Happy Valley of the Alaska […]
Iditarod frets snow
With 14 inches of snow blanketing the Iditarod Trail at Puntilla Lake on the south side of the Alaska Range and 6- to 8-inches on the ground at Rohn on the north […]
Iditarod dog death
After months of wrangling between a Fairbanks attorney and Alaska prosecutors, a Nulato man who was at the controls of a snowmachine that ran into and killed a dog in the Iditarod […]
