Date: March 21, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Lance Mackey works harder than ever, motivates his dogs to victory
If a human being could win the Iditarod’s Golden Harness award for best lead dog, the honor this year would have been bestowed to Lance Mackey, hands down.
Mackey’s dog team was always at the front of the largest and most talented field in the history […]
Date: March 18, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Bicknell’s Red Lantern run includes pit stop in dreaded blowhole
KASILOF — The 2008 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is officially over with the arrival of Red Lantern winner Deborah Bicknell.
The second time proved to be the charm for Bicknell, who returned to the Iditarod in 2008 after enduring a day-long adventure last year lost […]
Date: March 16, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Smyth’s dog Babe wins golden harness, King gets humanitarian award
NOME — DeeDee Jonrowe summed up the mood at this year’s finisher’s banquet before a packed crowd inside this city’s convention center.
“I love my competition. They’re awesome. They’re a lot of fun to be around,” she said. “March is family reunion time.”
If the pre-race banquet in […]
Date: March 16, 2008 at 11:27 am
NOME — It’s been 14 years since Joe Runyan last ran a dog team up Front Street in Nome, but there was the former champion with a strong, 14-dog team trotting smartly in unison right up the chute and under the burled arch. Under the thick fur ruff and dark glasses, he busted loose with […]
Date: March 16, 2008 at 11:26 am
Ed Stielstra of Michigan finished in the money this year for the first time, coming in 29th, and he’s already pumped about improving on that next year, saying he has the dogs capable of passing other teams.
He did it this year by camping his way to Nome, avoiding all but five checkpoints all the way […]
Date: March 15, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Iditarod experience is profound, emotional ride for back of the pack
NOME — Twelve days seems to be a magical dividing line — this year, at least — between mushers who were in the race to compete and those who were here to experience an adventure.
Almost to a person, the mushers finishing the Iditarod Trail Sled […]
Date: March 15, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Rachael Scdoris flew into Nome today, discouraged but still smiling after scratching frustratingly close the finish line for the sake of her dogs on Friday. Legally blind, she’d left Koyuk with her visual interpreter Joe Runyan to see if her increasingly small dog team had what it takes to make it to Nome. But two […]
Date: March 14, 2008 at 2:33 pm
NOME — Blake Freking made history Friday as his dog team trotted under the burled arch in 51st place. With a time of 11 days, 21 hours and 40 seconds, Freking becomes the driver of the fastest-ever team of pure-bred Siberian huskies to run this race.
He and wife, Jennifer, ran the race together from the […]
Date: March 14, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Molly Yazwinski had a long break back in Kaltag after having to drop some key dogs and regroup, but she’s continuing on up the trail and expected to finish, said David Monson, here in Nome to greet Yazwinski. She’s running dogs from the kennel of Monson and Susan Butcher in this year’s race.
Date: March 14, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Rachael Scdoris, the legally blind musher from Bend, Ore., had to call it a race this year, opting to scratch from the race after trying to leave Koyuk today behind her visual interpreter, Joe Runyan. After the team of mushers talked it over, Scdoris returned to the checkpoint to scratch and Runyan continued on to […]
