2001 Iditarod awards

Iditarod prizes awarded for the 2001 race:

After 'steps,' dogs happy to see river, stay

The notorious stretch of the Iditarod Trail between Finger Lake and Rainy Pass on the south slope of the Alaska Range claimed its first victim on Wednesday.

14th musher rushes into Nome to grab rookie honors

Pelted with snow flurries falling inexplicably from a sunny sky, Jessie Royer rolled into Nome behind eight good-looking huskies on Friday to claim 14th in the 2001 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Race among the rookies turns up with surprises

Mcgrath -- Rookie musher Gwen Holdmann has too sunny a personality to be this year's dark horse. But that's precisely the role the cheerful Fairbanks musher was playing on the fourth day of the 29th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Three in a row

Nome -- The siren piercing the darkness awakened Nome with the news that a champion was mushing onto Front Street early Wednesday morning.

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Champion Doug Swingley credits his three-year streak to good dog breeding and training -- something that goes back years. Swingley singled out a dog named Elmer, who led Swingley to the 1999 championship and won the Golden Harness Award as the best lead dog in the race.

Fiedler pushes the pace

Out in the vast nothingness between the ghost towns of Ophir and Iditarod, defending Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champ Doug Swingley was battling it out Wednesday night with Martha Stewart's favorite musher, Linwood Fiedler from Willow.

Way back when

Iditarod -- Dick Wilmarth was more than halfway to Nome when his fellow mushers started talking about quitting the first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

What's Spanish for 'dream come true?'

Finger Lake -- When rookie musher Pedro Curuchet pulled into the Finger Lake checkpoint on the second day of his race to Nome, he was met by the usual checker with a clipboard and a Spanish interpreter.

The last great non-race

He's at it again. On Feb. 25, 95-year-old explorer Col. Norman Vaughan set forth from Nenana on his annual Serum '25 Run expedition.

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Trail of the tired

The 2001 Iditarod started as a grand possibility and finished with a measure of history and surprise. Four-time winner Doug Swingley, the Montana maverick, sticking to a patented tried-and-true strategy, surged early and forged his victory along the Yukon River and the stretch of trail that reaches from that ribbon of ice to the coastal hub of Unalakleet.

Swingley in control

Unalakleet -- When Doug Swingley sailed into Unalakleet Sunday afternoon on a fast trail with the wind at his back, he had all but captured his fourth Iditarod -- and his third in a row.

Milne wins Quest Red Lantern

FAIRBANKS -- The Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race officially ended Tuesday night as musher Bruce Milne reached the finish to claim the Red Lantern.

Jenny Craig, pack your bags

Nome -- The Tim Osmar Weight Loss Plan certainly makes you sweat.

Fiedler leads mad dash to Rohn

Fast trail and good weather sent the leaders in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race leapfrogging past each other into the Interior on Monday at a pace never before seen.

Nome Traffic Jams

The Redington and Seavey families created a couple of traffic jams on Nome's Front Street on Saturday.

Ex-musher drops dogs, picks up pen

Joe Runyan has transformed from Supermusher to Clark Kent.

Lonely leader

White Mountain -- Iditarod front-runner Doug Swingley snoozed alone and undisturbed Tuesday afternoon in the city office building here while his dogs slept just as soundly beneath green blankets on the bank of the frozen Fish River.

Swingley and King will battle for title

Never is a musher more like a football coach than on cut-down day. Which dogs make the team? Which dogs go on the waiver wire?

Loneliest musher's trip ends

The loneliest musher on the Iditarod Trail saw his race end in the log-cabin village of Shageluk on Monday, hundreds of miles from the Nome finish line.