If you’d like a break from watching the tracker here are the links to some interesting articles about, or including, Aliy. Emily Schwing wrote “Born To Run: Iditarod veteran in it for the journey” about Aliy for Aljezerra America. Emily is out on the trail following the Iditarod and you … Read More
Aliy and the Red Team are through the Huslia checkpoint, spending just 12 minutes there restocking supplies and having vet checks done on the dogs. She left there at 8.20pm with all 16 team mates and we’re very excited about that!
Aliy and the Red Team are on the move towards Huslia after what appears to be about three to four hours rest on the trail, roughly 13 miles outside of Huslia. This means they will likely go through the checkpoint and on towards Koyukuk. As she goes through she will … Read More
Congratulations to Jan Andersson from Canada! Jan is a fan of Olivia – super-model, super-leader and super-mom! Olivia is known to us as “Big O”; like how you might call someone who is 6ft, 5in “Tiny”, but she is big in personality and talent. Olivia ran as far as Manley … Read More
Aliy and the Red Team are on their way to Huslia after completing their mandatory 24 hour break in Galena. A few of you might have worried that they didn’t start moving right at the 24 hour mark. In an earlier post I talked about how the teams make up … Read More
Manly is about 170 miles by road from Fairbanks so our drive from Nenana was around 210 miles compared to about 90 miles for the dog teams. We did manage to beat Aliy in so were there to greet the team. It was cold! The gauge on the truck read … Read More
Both teams are currently in Galena! It will be nice for Aliy and Allen to see each other, even if it’s only briefly. The Red Team has been resting in Galena since 5.54am so it is pretty safe to assume Aliy has declared her mandatory 24 hour stop there. We … Read More
Here is some footage of both teams in Nenana checkpoint back on Monday afternoon. Aliy and the Red Team went through the checkpoint so there is not much to see but I spent a few minutes watching Allen do his arrival routine and I thought you’d be interested in seeing … Read More
Take a look back at the Black Team getting ready to head to Nome!
Aliy and the Red Team pulled into Galena at 5.54am Thursday. She’s still running with all 16 of her team mates and they are moving at a pretty good clip. The Insider video showed them coming in to the checkpoint with Waylon and Scout in lead, Nacho and Scooter in … Read More
