Date: June 30, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Wasilla, Alaska - The 2008 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race contains a field of World Class competitors and a number of new faces. A record number 56 mushers were on hand at the Iditarod Trail Committee Headquarters today to sign up for Iditarod XXXVI. They are joined by 15 other mushers who mailed in their applications before the official sign up today. (June 30, 2007) The sign ups were part of the 2007 Volunteer Picnic Celebration.
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Date: June 28, 2007 at 4:12 pm
The 2007 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Volunteer Picnic is scheduled for Saturday, June 30th, 2007 at the campus of the Iditarod Trail Committee Headquarters (Mile 2.2 Knik Road, Wasilla). Activities of interest are as follows;
- The General membership meeting will be conducted at 10 am at Race Headquarters.
- The 2008 Board of Directors will be announced at the conclusion of the general membership meeting.
- The Volunteer Picnic is scheduled to begin at 12 noon on the campus of the Iditarod Trail Headquarters.
- The 2008 field of mushers will begin signing up beginning at 1pm.
At this time ten mushers have mailed in their 2008 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race applications. For more information about the picnic and musher sign ups, please contact Chas St.George at 907.232.0503.
Date: June 26, 2007 at 4:15 pm
It is hailed as the highest award in sports… the ESPY. On June 25th ESPN announced the nominees for 2007 ESPY, and the “incredible” Lance Mackey made the list in the category of Best Outdoor Athlete of the Year! Mackey’s accomplishment as the only musher to ever win both the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod in the same year was cited in the nomination.
Other nominees in the Best Outdoor Athlete of the Year category are Bass angler Mike Iaconelli, mountaineers Samantha Larson and Ian McKeever, along with runner Dean Karnezes.
The winners of the ESPY Awards will be aired live on ESPN July 15, 2007.
Date: June 5, 2007 at 4:17 pm
WASILLA - The Iditarod Trail Committee (ITC) was front and center during the 44th annual Northwest Regional Emmy Awards at the Jonas Jensen Fremont Studios and Theatre in Seattle on Saturday, June 1st 2007. Iditarod Trail Productions won an Emmy Award for its documentary depicting the 2006 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
“Iditarod 2006: Mother Nature’s Turn to Dance,” was the Iditarod Trail Committee’s first attempt at producing its own documentary, and was nominated for an Emmy Award by the Regional Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on April 13 2007.
The 95-minute documentary was the compilation of more than 130 hours of video shot during the 2006 Iditarod. The production team embedded within the infrastructure of the Iditarod Air Force, and got an up close and personal account on the race from start to finish. The documentary won the award in the category of program achievement in the best news special category.
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