With Doug Swingley out of the race, and mushers like Lance Mackey & Cim Smyth constantly leading or in the front of the pack, this could be a very different Iditarod than many people predicted. However, there is so much “leap frogging” going on right now with lead teams running on such different rest [...]
News coming out of the Rainy Pass Checkpoint and Iditarod Headquarters today – Four time champion Doug Swingly scratched from the race at 12:36pm on Monday, March 5th 2007. Swingly, who many thought could win the race this year, tying Rick Swenson’s record of 5 Iditarod championships is the first musher to officially scratch [...]
As mushers approach and go through rainy pass, the trail will might be a little different than in previous years, but that doesn’t mean the teams are going to slow down much. With little snow coverage outside of rainy pass and extending all the way through Rohn and Nikolai mushers are looking forward to [...]
From KICY - Kim Slade, the Wells Fargo Teacher on the Trail calls in a report from the re-start in Willow.
From KICY - Kim Slade, the Wells Fargo Teacher on the Trail calls in a report from the Ceremonial start in Anchorage…..from inside Matt Rossi’s sled!