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Overnight dog runs a must in cold weather Read the rest of this entry »

A musher from Quebec has taken his fourth title in the Can-Crown International Sled Dog Races in northern Maine. Read the rest of this entry »

Many mushers can tell a story of a time when their dogs saved them — sometimes on the trail, sometimes off. Read the rest of this entry »

Sled-dog bloodlines are meticulously bred to ensure the best possible genes pass on to future generations. The same can almost be said for the men and women who drive their dogs in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Read the rest of this entry »

The 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has begun with musher Cim Smyth of Big Lake leaving the restart in Willow. Read the rest of this entry »

Speedy Kjetil Backen, kennel partner of two-time champion Robert Sorlie, flew into the Finger Lake checkpoint before dawn on Monday to seize the early lead in the 36th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Backen, the third-place finisher in the 2004 Iditarod has been moving. Read the rest of this entry »

For a solitary soul, Laura Daugereau sure can talk. Ask her an initial question, and she speaks for 11 ceaseless minutes, discussing the outdoors, home-schooling, Christianity, humidity, dyslexia and, of course, dogs. Oh, how she loves her dogs. That’s why we are having this conversation. Read the rest of this entry »

FORT KENT, Maine n He’s run two Iditarods and 11 Race to the Sky Sled Dog Races and this weekend Bozeman musher Rob Greger is on the trails in northern Maine competing in the 15th Can Am Crown International 250 Sled Dog Race. Read the rest of this entry »

Thousands of people lined Fourth Avenue downtown and sections of the 11-mile route to Campbell Airstrip on Saturday to bid a record 96 Iditarod mushers farewell for their formidable winter journey across the wildest reaches of Alaska. Read the rest of this entry »

The 36th annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race launched from the world of glass, steel, concrete and traffic on Saturday. Read the rest of this entry »

A record field of mushers drove dog teams through Alaska’s largest city Saturday in the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Read the rest of this entry »

Only a week ago, water flowed a foot deep over the Iditarod Trail north of Rohn where the Post River spills out of the aptly named Terra Cotta Mountains to meet the mighty Kuskokwim River, which drains the Alaska Range north toward the village of Nikolai. Read the rest of this entry »

As I crested the berm of snow on the side of a seasonal road in the U.P., I saw a patch of ice that was going to be trouble. The dogs think corners are their chance to rid themselves of the musher, and so each corner is a game of crack the whip. Read the rest of this entry »

The Junior North American Sled Dog Championships got off to a good start Friday, as 34 young mushers and their families hit the trails at the Jeff Studdert Racegrounds despite blustery weather. Read the rest of this entry »

Prairie Valley seventh-grade students sat in the school auditorium Friday morning and proudly explained the details of Alaska’s famous sled race — the Iditarod. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, many Arizonans will take advantage of sunny skies and enjoy a balmy day outside. But “north to Alaska,” 63 mushers will embark on a more-than 1,150-mile journey in very different conditions in the 2008 Iditarod sled dog race. Read the rest of this entry »

Tomorrow is the first day of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race®, which is a popular tradition in Alaska. Read the rest of this entry »

There are any number of parallels to be drawn between elite human and canine athletes. Read the rest of this entry »

Three of the 96 mushers in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will be from northeastern Minnesota. Read the rest of this entry »

Each year, 30,000 to 40,000 people from around the world gather in Anchorage to watch the ceremonial start of the Iditarod sled dog race. Thousands more turn out to cheer the winner at the finish line in Nome some 10 days later. Read the rest of this entry »