It won’t be long now until we start to see mushers arrive into Unalakleet. Now its not only the regional media that has arrived, but we are seeing the official media here too (the versus network, iditarod.com reporters, and Jon Little from Cabela’s Iditarod). The town is a buzz about when everyone will [...]
Here in Unalakleet with the prospect of a musher arriving sometime soon its not so much about who is coming in, but when they are coming in. Everyone from lifetime residents to freelance writers in this small town are speculating about when the first teams might arrive. Each person has a different opinion [...]
I just looked at the most current standings, it seems Jeff King managed to sneak out of Eagle Island a few minutes before Martin Buser, thus putting him in the lead of the race….but he also got an hour and a half less rest than Buser did, so we’ll see if that has any effect.
I’m [...]
Martin Buser, Jeff King, Lance Mackey, and Paul Gebhardt are all on their way from Greyling to Eagle Island and from there it will be a long trek to Kaltag, and Unalakleet will be the next big destination from there. I’ve reached my “halfway point” starting out this morning in Anchorage one week after [...]
Martin Buser was the first musher to arrive in the village of Anvik on the banks of the mighty Yukon River. The Millennium Hotel in Anchorage sponsors a prize to the first musher who reaches the Yukon, its one of the most coveted in the race.
Martin, who arrived at 10:45am this morning will be treated [...]
Martin Buser & Jeff King have blown through Shageluk and are on their way to Anvik. Who will be the first musher to the Yukon and to the AMAZING meal that waits for them there? Mackey & Gebhardt are following right behind went through the check point just under 2 hours later. Zach Steer [...]
Buser & King arrived into Iditarod just minutes apart around 4:35pm Alaska time Thursday afternoon. Martin made the run from Ophir in just under 10 hours, and Jeff under 11 hours. With fresh teams off of their 24 hour layover it took a considerably shorter amount of time than the first pack that arrived very [...]
The cloud of mystery that is the Iditarod 24 hour layover continues to confuse spectators as they try to interpret the current standings. Lance Mackey was the first musher to reach the checkpoint of Iditarod EARLY Thursday morning, receiving GCI’s Dorthoy Page halfway award. Lance took almost 17 and a half hours to [...]
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Jack Bauer may be able to save the world in just 24 hours on Fox’s hit TV show, but to mushers competing in the Iditarod 24 hours is just enough time to get some good sleep and rest their dogs. Many top mushers have decided to take their [...]
From KICY - Kim Slade, the Wells Fargo Teacher on the Trail calls in another report from Nikolai. Kim talks about Mike Williams and his message to native students in bush Alaska.