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Iditarod Red Lantern
UPDATED BELOW Deborah Bicknell got to Nome with 8 dogs about 8:30 last night. Her time on the trail was 15 days, 5 hours, 36 minutes, 12 seconds. That time would have been fast enough to have won the race in '73, '74… -
Iditarod Finishers' Banquet
NOTE: Red Lantern update at bottom Jon Little, in his Eye on the Trail blog, at what until this year had been Cabela's Iditarod, has reported on last night's awards banquet in Nome. All otherwise unattributed quotes i… -
Footprints - Hoofprints - Pawprints
Ever since I was on Xanga yesterday, I have been thinking about the partnership between people and domestic animals, particularly dogs and horses. That train of thought got started after I backtracked one of the Xanga F… -
Iditarod Day "14"
I know I said I was exhausted and "outta here," but I couldn't leave the computer without checking on who's into Nome, who's still on the trail, who scratched, etc. Then I thought I'd do a brief update for Chris, Paulin… -
Greyfox is ecstatic.
My husband phoned me as soon as he was awake today, to learn who had won the Iditarod. He was going, "YES! YES!" exulting over the victory by "our boy Lance." Lance has been his favorite musher for a couple of years no… -
9 days 11 hours 46 minutes 48 seconds
At 2:46:48 this morning, Lance Mackey has won his second consecutive Iditarod, after having won his fourth consecutive Yukon Quest last month. -
King Is Through Safety
Jeff King passed through Safety Checkpoint an hour and eight minutes after Lance Mackey. At 1:42 AM, the tracker was showing Lance about eight and a half miles out of Nome, seven miles ahead of Jeff King, moving 2 MPH f… -
Mackey Is Through Safety
Lance Mackey checked into Safety at 11:44, and out at 11:45. At midnight, the tracker, for what it's worth, was showing Jeff King nine miles from Safety. Ramey Smyth, in third position, left White Mountain at 11:44 wit… -
Competition Is Getting Serious Now
Lance Mackey checked out of White Mountain at 4:53 PM today with the same eleven dogs he had when he got there. Jeff King dropped two dogs in White Mountain and checked out at 5:50 PM with fourteen. I assume that the t… -
Iditarod Day "11"
A second dog has died in this year's Iditarod. About 10 PM Sunday, Blake and Jennifer Freking, a married pair of mushers from Minnesota running the Iditarod together, were stopped to snack their teams between Galena and…
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