Anvik reduced to stop and go

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.

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Anvik reduced to stop and go

Lynda Plettner on training mushers

Musher hitches ride with TV crew

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.

The Mackey Family Tradition

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Dad had another tight race

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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.

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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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Mushing's 1st family Mackeys pile on the victories

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