After winning his first career Iditarod Sled Dog Race, Jessie Holmes was quick to credit his canine superstars. “I am really proud of these dogs, I love them, they did they, they deserve all the credit,” Holmes said in the chute moments after winning the ‘The Last Great Race on Earth’.
When rookie musher Brenda Mackey scratched in Tanana last Wednesday, Iditarod officials released a now-retracted statement saying she arrived with 14 healthy dogs in harness, but that wasn’t true.
Last month, Emily Robinson cemented her legacy in the youth dog mushing world as the only person to win the Jr. Iditarod four straight years. Now, just a few weeks after making history, she is on another unprecedented journey for a junior musher by taking on much of the famed Iditarod Trail.
“It’s on my mind every day.” While Parker and the Northern Whites were on a training run near Cantwell in December 2023, a snowmachine struck the team, killing three dogs. Parker is carrying the ashes of Solo, John, and Buttercup with him on his Iditarod run.
Teams navigated through high winds near the mouth of the Tanana River Wednesday morning that sent silt through the air and led dogs searching for the trail.
Since it’s inception, the Iditarod Trail sled dog race has captured the hearts and imaginations of fans the world ‘round.
One Alaskan educator is working to make that world a little smaller by connecting students in Nairobi, Kenya with the Last Great Race on Earth.
It looks like the iconic Burled Arch, but finishing work is still being done before the Iditarod finishing arch heads to Nome just ahead of the mushers.
The weather is always a factor in the Iditarod, from extreme snow and wind to bitter cold, and in a handful of years, even conditions that are too warm. This will be one of those years.
Fans from all over the world came face-to-face with their favorite mushers, before a bib draw to determine the starting order of the 53rd running of the race on Thursday.
Nenana’s Emily Robinson became the first musher in Jr. Iditarod history to win the race four times when she reached the Tolsona Lake finish line with nine dogs in harness Sunday morning.
A major change is coming to this year’s Iditarod as the Trail Committee announced the race will now begin — for the fourth time in the race’s history — in Fairbanks.
The burled arch of the Iditarod finish line has to be rebuilt because the previous one was claimed by wood rot. Veteran musher Ramey Smyth was tasked with the job.
The Iditarod Trail Committee’s (ITC) Board of Directors announced the 53rd Iditarod’s Honorary Musher is the late Dr. Stuart Nelson who passed away in September 2024.
Weather conditions have proven tough for the Iditarod as warmer temperatures have swept through Southcentral Alaska this winter, but good news came Friday as teams received the green light to run the Southern Route.
The Iditarod, Alaska’s most iconic sporting spectacle, is preparing for its 53rd running in March, which also marks the 100th anniversary of the serum run, when life-saving medicine was transported via dog sled relay across 674 miles of Alaska terrain to Nome. The Iditarod, a 1,049-mile race, plans to recognize the heroic run at this year’s event.
