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Musher Quince Mountain is about to embark on his second Iditarod, a long-distance dogsled race across Alaska. We asked him ...

The 2025 edition will also feature a field low on experience, as 16 rookies — defined as any musher who does not have an ...

1967 - The first Iditarod is held, with 58 mushers competing along a 50-mile trail. March 1973 - After shorter races in 1967 and 1969, the first full-length race takes place. The course is ...

Thirty-three mushers plan to start the world's most famous sled dog race, the Iditarod in Alaska, on March 3. They'll start the race near Fairbanks and run with their teams of sled dogs for about ...

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race kicks off Saturday with a parade-like ceremony through Anchorage, but the route is significantly shorter this year due to lack of snow. Race officials announced ...

The 2025 Iditarod race, which normally begins in Anchorage, Alaska, will begin at an alternate location this year due to a lack of snow. The main reason for the relocation to Fairbanks is the ...

On a sled it’s really something.” Redington and his team were just two weeks away from competing in the thousand-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Redington won the race in 2023, it’s a ...

KNIK LAKE — This past Sunday, on an unseasonably warm February afternoon, more than 100 cyclists, skiers and walkers gathered at Knik Lake for the start of the 2025 Iditarod Trail Invitational.

When Jim LaLonde of Farmington Hills tells people that his daughter is competing in the Iditarod sled dog race over more than 1,000 miles in Alaska, the first thing they ask is why. They want to ...

After it was announced Feb. 17 that the Official Restart for the 2025 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was moving to Fairbanks, it has now been confirmed that it will be held at Pike’s Waterfront Lodge.