I’ve been catching the Iditarod coverage on the versus network over the last few weeks, Its really pretty impressive the type of national feel they give to the Iditarod. I know that the whole crew at versus works really hard to capture the whole Iditarod story and put it into a 3 hour TV [...]
At almost 3am this morning, Rookie Ellen Halverson became Iditarod 35’s Red Lantern winner. She was the last of 58 mushers to finish this year’s Iditarod sled dog race, when she passed under the burled arch the widow’s lantern, which had been burning since the beginning of the race, was extinguished.
With arguably the toughest [...]
The Iditarod Awards Banquet wrapped up a few hours ago in the Nome Rec Center, it was an amazing dinner of Halibut, Prime-Rib, prawns, and fresh strawberries. Its always fun to hear stories as told by the mushers, and see the awards all given out. We were there taping the whole banquet, and [...]
With 47 mushers in, and 12 still out on the trail, I’m almost tempted to say that things have slowed down here in Nome but that isn’t the case. Even though mushers aren’t arriving in groups of 6 or 7 an hour anymore, it doesn’t mean that things have gone back to normal for this [...]
I’d bet that Rick Swenson would love to have had that headline appear in the papers back in 1978 when he came in second place to Dick Mackey by just a brief moment in what is the most dramatic finish in Iditarod history. For the five time champion this year things are different; Rick [...]
As of Noon Thursday we have almost 30 mushers in, but there are still about 30 still left on the trail.
Our top twenty consisted of the usual suspects, the Smyth brothers Ramey and Cim, Hugh Neff, Hans Gatt, Aaron Burmeister, and Jessie Royer coming in 22nd. Jason Barron came in 14th, he was definitely hoping [...]
above: Tollef Monson arrives as the last member of this year’s top tenÂ
Lance Mackey claiming his first Iditarod championship last night doesn’t put an end to this year’s epic race. So often in the media news outlets will say that “The Iditarod Ended” when the first place musher arrives into Nome. Anyone familiar with the [...]
3:15am AKT
Steer & Buser are fighting for 3rd place - Live on KICY in under 20 minutes! I’m headed down to Front street for the broadcast!
http://war.str3am.com:7530/
update - 4:45am: Steer arrived at 3:46am, Martin at 4:07am Audio of the arrival to be added in the morning! - Next up: Jeff King around 6:00.
At 8:08pm Lance Mackey won his first Iditarod Championship.
View photos of Lance’s win (here)
Two and a half hours later Paul Gebhardt arrived and claimed his second place title.
to download just Mackey’s win (click here - 1mb)Â - To download the entire hour long broadcast (click here - 38mb)
Video to come.
KICY will continue to broadcast live [...]
If you don’t have access to a live video stream, tune into the KICY radio stream coming live from the finish line in Nome, AK.
For the Stream:
(click here) and then click on “Listen”
For Live Webcams:
BSSD Finish Line Cam:
IditaProject Finish Line Cam
http://65.74.124.66/view/view.shtml
Username: iditaproject
Password: bssd06
City of Nome Camera:
http://www.nomealaska.org/vc/cam-page.htm