Iditarod Forty Update

Make your nominations for the Iditarod Hall of Fame

Every year since the inaugural class of the Anchorage Daily News Iditarod Hall of Fame was inducted in 1997, a group of journalists discuss whether any new members should be added.

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IDITAROD SLED DOG RACE

Anchorage cyclist Basinger wins Iditarod Invitational

A determined stretch run by Fairbanks cyclist Jeff Oatley fell just short before midnight Wednesday as Anchorage's Pete Basinger claimed his fourth victory in the human-powered Iditarod Invitational.
IDITAROD FORTY UPDATE

Last musher hits Nome; sixth dog death reported

The Iditarod reached the end of the trail early Tuesday morning with a Red Lantern winner from Michigan and the most dead dogs in more than a decade.
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Sixth Iditarod dog dies during flight to Nome

A sixth dog in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race has died. Race officials say the dog on Alan Peck's team died during a flight from Shaktoolik to Nome.
IDITAROD FORTY UPDATE

Two more Iditarod dogs dead near Nome

Two more dogs have perished in this year's Iditarod, bringing the total to five with more than 20 mushers still on the 1,000-mile trail from Willow to Nome.
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Mackey's Iditarod triple play

At the end, the storms that had raked the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race for days finally died and the sun shone brightly on Lance Mackey as 15 dogs pulled him down Front Street on Wednesday to a historic victory.
IDITAROD FORTY UPDATE

Bitter winds delay winner's welcome in Nome

Brutal winds that have slowed the 37th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to a crawl and forced some mushers to quit have pushed back the estimated finish time. Don't expect the winner on Front Street in Nome before noon Wednesday. Two-time defending champion Lance Mackey pulled out of Elim, about ...
IDITAROD FORTY UPDATE

Iditarod racers face another day of brutal wind

Wait out the wind. That's what dozens of mushers along the Iditarod Trail were doing today as fierce headwinds combined with subzero temperatures to make pushing forward fruitless at best and dangerous at worst for some of the best mushers in the world.
IDITAROD FORTY UPDATE

Cause of Packer dogs' deaths remains unknown

A pathologist working for the Iditarod Trail Committee could not visually determine why two 5-year-old male dogs in Wasilla rookie musher Lou Packer's team died, the committee said today in a press release.
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Mackey first to Yukon, despite a wrong turn

Just after noon today, the church bell rang in Anvik to welcome musher Lance Mackey to an eight-course lunch. The two-time defending Iditarod champ broke away from the competition at the ghost town of Iditarod and was the first to reach the Yukon River.
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Lead pack out of Ophir on tough trail

An armada of about a dozen mushers was on the move across one of the most desolate stretches of the frozen Alaska Interior this afternoon as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race neared the halfway mark at the ghost town of Iditarod. Aaron Burmeister from Nenana led the way.