Date: September 21, 2006 at 11:33 am
KASILOF, Alaska — Whiteouts are the norm along the largely treeless Bering Sea Coast, where cold, heavy air roars out of the hills in an urgent rush for the low-lying shore. But one particular storm in 1991 - a nasty, howling tempest - did more than simply sculpt new drifts across the landscape that year, […]
Date: September 5, 2006 at 3:43 pm
KASILOF, Alaska — Note: For a lot of reasons, I am reluctant to write too much about my own dog team and the limited success I’ve had racing Alaskan huskies. I’m not that interested in writing about myself, unless it helps illustrate something about the sport from an insider’s point of view. But I recently […]
Date: August 11, 2006 at 11:53 am
Jeff King wonders if he’s hit on another strategy to gain an edge.
KASILOF, Alaska — Ask Jeff King how his summer is going after winning the Iditarod and he might just say, “Swimmingly.”
The four-time champion from Denali Park, Alaska, is hardly resting on his laurels after out-racing his main rival in 2006, Doug Swingley of […]
Date: August 7, 2006 at 3:06 pm
KASILOF, Alaska — With her husband and two children at her bedside at a Seattle cancer hospital, four-time Iditarod champion Susan Butcher - a battler with singular toughness and spirit - realized it was finally time to let go. She died at 3:25 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5, in Seattle. She was 51.
Husband David Monson and […]
Date: August 2, 2006 at 12:17 pm
Setback: Butcher’s leukemia returns
KASILOF, Alaska — No sooner had the public learned that Susan Butcher was battling her body’s rejection of a recent bone marrow transplant than the news suddenly changed, but not necessarily for the better. She beat the marrow rejection, but doctors had to break the disheartening news that the transplant itself failed. […]
Date: July 26, 2006 at 12:31 pm
Butcher battles marrow rejection
KASILOF, Alaska — Susan Butcher’s long road to recovery from leukemia has hit a roadblock, forcing the weakened, four-time Iditarod champion into a fierce, secondary battle if she is to once again assume her role as mother to daughters Tekla and Chisana.
Butcher’s toughness and resolve is legendary. But this time, it isn’t […]
Date: July 20, 2006 at 4:39 pm
DeNure trains for rookie Iditarod run
KASILOF, Alaska — Some people toil with their dogs in obscurity for years before becoming a palpable part of the distance mushing community, while others seemingly have a gift of showing up and effortlessly emerging as a fixture, a mover and a shaker. Zoya DeNure is one such musher.
Since the […]
Date: July 20, 2006 at 12:52 pm
KASILOF, Alaska – Dodo Perri, 48, a longtime musher in Italy and veteran of the 2005 Iditarod, died July 14 in a diving accident in the Isle of Ponza harbor in the Tirrenean Sea near Rome. Perri was living on the Isle of Ponza with his girlfriend, Maria Rita Menichelli, who owns a store there. […]
Date: July 11, 2006 at 12:58 pm
KASILOF, Alaska – Ed Iten barely had a chance to nap after his third major race of the winter, and he was in a reflective mood. His voice thick with sleep, he ruminated on the season gone by. Having compiled close to 2,000 miles in races alone in 2006, he still scratched his head over […]
Date: June 5, 2006 at 1:53 pm
Dream Harley in hand, he’s aiming at a dream race and a dream home
KASILOF, Alaska – Lance Mackey has three simple desires: win the Iditarod, live in a log house and ride around on a Harley Davidson motorcycle. One of the three became a reality this summer, and the other two are tantalizingly within reach […]
