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2007 Iditarod 35

Anvik reduced to stop and go

Ed Iten feeds his dogs at the Anvik checkpoint on the Yukon River, Mar. 9, 2007.

Checking Iditarod Trail e-mail all night long makes Bruce Mallard's eyes weighty. He paces inside the Anvik bingo hall trying to stay sharp.

Dad had another tight race

Hundreds of people lined Front Street for the finish of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Tuesday night. Thousands if not tens of thousands glued themselves to their television sets. More clicked rapidly on their computers to monitor results. Twenty-seven-thousand feet above the trail, Dick Mackey listened on a radio. Down below, his 36-year-old son, Lance, was making Alaska history.

Four Iditarod leaders reach coast neck-in-neck

After days of bitter cold and howling winds, a Gang of Four led the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to the normally windswept Bering Sea Coast on a sun-kissed Sunday.

Eagle Island checkpoint blocks wind, has one key amenity

At 22 below zero and the wind chill of the Yukon River waiting to burn his skin outside, Harvey Goho unzipped his warm, bright yellow arctic-oven tent and post-holed his way to the middle of the frozen river.

Iditarod movie creates chills

Barrelling down an icy chute in the Alaska Range called the Dalzell Gorge, Lance Mackey"s lead dog was heading the team toward disaster.

The pain can wait until Nome

Using a wooden handrail to support his battered and probably broken left leg, Iditarod musher Bryan Mills carefully made his way down a flight of stairs to tend to his laundry, then his dogs. A veteran of two previous Iditarods, Mills instead pressed on. He appears determined to finish what he started Saturday in Anchorage and get his dogs to the burled arch marking the finish line of the 1,100-mile race to Nome.

Zorro didn't finish, but he left his mark

Tears of joy rolled down Lance Mackey's leathery cheeks when he crossed the Burled Arch here Tuesday night to celebrate a historic finish in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Lance Mackey's best friends turned out to be his huskies

More than helping Lance Mackey achieve the once-thought-impossible feat of back-to-back victories in the world's two longest, coldest and hardest sled dog races this year, a team of Alaska huskies might well have saved his life.

DAY 11

Mackey makes history with Iditarod win

NOME - Lance Mackey lit up this historic, old gold-mining town along the Bering Sea on Tuesday as he feasted on the thrill of Iditarod victory. Punching his fists into the sky, pounding the lucky No. 13 bib on his chest, waving to a big Front Street crowd and always smiling, the Fairbanks musher bounded down Front Street behind his smartly trotting team to claim his first victory in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

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2011 Leader board

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2011 Trail map

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2011 Reader photos

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RT @adndotcom: Iditarod musher Moore wins sportsmanship award for rescue of fellow racer. http://bit.ly/h36RF5 12:24PM
Ellen Halverson today became the Iditarod's only two-time winner of the Red Lantern http://bit.ly/eKKDo4 4:22PM
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@coldfootfilms thanks! Loved your smart, funny tweets 7:10PM
Happy trails from Bob & Kyle: http://bit.ly/fHQKNX #Iditarod 6:33PM
Sleeping Lady, from the other side of the bed. We just landed in ANC. Prop still spinning http://twitpic.com/4ai0mr 5:15PM

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Video: Ceremonial start

Crowds line the streets of Anchorage, Alaska, as the ceremonial start of the 2011 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race gets underway on Saturday, March 5, 2011.

Mushing with diabetes

Veteran musher Bruce Linton talks about his approach to mushing, and live, as an insulin-dependent diabetic.

Time-lapse video

Watch the set-up and festivities downtown for the ceremonial start, pulled from 20 hours of web cam footage and condensed into 68 seconds.

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2011 Trail map

Follow the mushers along the Iditarod trail's Southern route, with live standings at each checkpoint.

Slide show: Takotna

Good location, tasty food and delicious pies make the Takotna checkpoint a favorite resting spot for mushers.

Susan Butcher memorial

This photo retrospective covers more than two decades of Iditarod racing.

AnchorageCloudy 28° (31°/26°)

Skwentna Cloudy 20° (21°/13°)

McGrath Clear 16° (20°/)

Kaltag Clear 3° (26°/)

Unalakleet Clear 28° (30°/15°)

Nome Partly cloudy 27° (28°/14°)

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