It’s nearly 2am Alaska time. Watching a recent Iditarod Insider video of the Red Team coming in to Takotna we were pleased to see the team still looking fantastic! They were alert and happy (except when the siren went off to announce their arrival – I don’t think Biscuit had … Read More
It’s 6.30pm Alaska time. Aliy is out of McGrath and on her way to Takotna! We’ve seen and heard several interviews with her in Nikolai and you can almost hear the disbelief in her voice about how bad the trail was. Seeing photographs and video of her pulling out of … Read More
Its 12.30pm Alaska time. Aliy has left Nikolai with 15 team mates on the line. We’ve just seen the Insider video of the Red Team coming in Nikolai and they look great! She had Waylon back up in lead with Quito, Chica with Nacho, Boondocks with Olivia then everyone else … Read More
As you may know, in 1973 the Iditarod sled dog race began. Several reasons are quoted as to why the race began, one of which is to commemorate the role sled dogs and the Iditarod trail played in the 1925 diphtheria outbreak in Nome. You will have heard the famous … Read More
It’s 7.45am Alaska time. Good morning! As I catch up with what’s been going on overnight the first thing is that we are aware that Allen as dropped a dog from his team at Rohn. The same thing applies here as yesterday: we have no way to know what dog … Read More
Come behind the scenes at the Restart in Willow. Music: East Ender by Apple Inc.
It’s 9.00pm Alaska Time. Aliy and the Red Team left Rohn at 5.22pm and are currently sitting in second position. This early in the race and before anyone has taken their 24 hour mandatory rest it really is too early for that to mean anything too significant. It just means … Read More
We have just picked up SCOUT from the Millennium Hotel where he was flown from Skwentna earlier this afternoon. We are very sorry to see him but happy that he is safe and well. Scout is okay; he tweaked a tricep just before Skwentna checkpoint and he is still a … Read More
Here is a quick video from the re-start in Willow yesterday. Don’t the teams look fantastic?
Its 8.00am Monday morning, Alaska Time. Right now Aliy is on her way to Rainy Pass. The team ran to Yentna Station Roadhouse in 3 hours 38 minutes and went through, stopping only for a few minutes. Her run to Skwentna was just over three hours where they rested a … Read More
