Iditarod 36

DAY 17

Sorensen fights through adversity to win race honor

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race started horribly for 47-year-old Norwegian Tove Sorensen but ended marvelously on Sunday when she learned the other competitors in the 1,100-mile adventure across Alaska had voted her the winner of the Chevron Most Inspirational Musher Award.

Degerlund claims Junior Iditarod title

Micah Degerlund of Fairbanks surged past Rohn Buser Sunday morning to win the Junior Iditarod Sled Dog Race by five minutes.Degerlund, 17, has worked as a dog handler for Ray Redington, Jr., the last six years. He finished in 22 hours, 59 minutes in his third Junior Iditarod.

DAY 2

Iditarod leaders leave Rainy Pass

As Iditarod mushers Robert Bundtzen and Bryan Bearss headed for this checkpoint high in the Alaska Range on Monday, Iditarod veteran Zack Steer poured himself a cup, took a slurp and settled back to watch the progress of his dogs via the internet.

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Norman Vaughn's ashes (APRN)

DAY 18

Rookie Lockwood wraps up Red Lantern

An apparent bid by two mushers to win the Red Lantern as the last finisher in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ended Tuesday when rookie. Glenn Lockwood crossed the finish line in Nome

Burns leave musher resolute, looking to future

Second and third degree burns charred Jerry Riley's face. His right eye swelled shut. Some of his clothes had melted to his body. The musher seems perpetually composed, whether he's fighting his way through a ground blizzard on the Iditarod or fighting off the pain of a serious burn. The fire scalded his features, but not his hope of fielding another competitive dog team this season.

Norwegians make inroads

When the 34th annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race starts in early March, more than 70 mushers and hundreds of sled dogs will begin the challenging 1,100-mile race to Nome.

Plucky global walker lugs sled over Iditarod Trail to promote charities

rmed with guts and determination, Rosie Swale Pope set out along the Iditarod Trail from White Mountain on Dec. 9 in the same way she has set out from so many remote communities since leaving the United Kingdom two years ago to hike around the globe:

Iditarod moves race restart to Willow

Despite forecasts of snow for Wasilla this weekend, the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday pulled the plug on the scheduled March 5 restart of its race there.

DAY 5

Swingley not worried about King

With a 60-mile push across the Interior from Ophir to Cripple, Jeff King snatched the lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Thursday afternoon, but a cocky Doug Swingley didn't seem all that worried.

DAY 9

Iditarod leaders in sprint

Fresh off a 50-mile run across frozen Norton Sound, the dog team of Paul Gebhardt pulled into this checkpoint on the Bering Sea Coast on Monday in third place just hours behind the race leaders, Jeff King and Doug Swingley. The Kasilof musher wiped tiny icicles from his mustache.

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DAY 10

Luck saves King's perfect run

Just an hour before starting a Tuesday march toward what promised to be a long-awaited fourth victory in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, musher Jeff King sprawled in the straw next to beloved lead dog Salem with arms spread wide.

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DAY 13

Despite strong start, Currier's Iditarod hopes stopped in dogs' tracks

For 45-year-old, college-educated dog musher Judy Currier, the 2006 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race turned painfully from the best of times to the worst of times on Thursday.

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DAY 12

Top 30 Iditarod finishers already into Nome

The top 30 mushers in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race were already into Nome and across the finish line Thursday morning, swapping stories about their adventures competing in the longest sled dog race in the world.

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DAY 4

Mushers blown out by high winds

If scratching and being stranded with a team of 16 dogs for two days here at Rainy Pass Lodge wasn't difficult enough for Iditarod musher Lori Townsend of Willow, Wednesday's hurricanelike winds amplified her frustrations.

DAY 13

Despite strong start, Currier's Iditarod hopes stopped in dogs' tracks

For 45-year-old, college-educated dog musher Judy Currier, the 2006 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race turned painfully from the best of times to the worst of times on Thursday.

audio A.M. (APRN)

DAY 5

Swingley not worried about King

With a 60-mile push across the Interior from Ophir to Cripple, Jeff King snatched the lead in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Thursday afternoon, but a cocky Doug Swingley didn't seem all that worried.

DAY 15

Dutch Iditarod musher told to get off the trail

The slow pace of rookie musher Ben Valks got him booted from the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Saturday.

DAY 11

Race set by timing of rest

The extra rest Montana musher Doug Swingley gave his fading dog team along the Bering Sea coast on Tuesday allowed Jeff King from Denali Park to coast to a fourth Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race victory early Wednesday morning.

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DAY 6

Hazard in middle of trail leaves sleds battered and broken

Lucky ones solve trail difficulties while others get stumped.

CEREMONIAL START

The long run

From the helicopters over downtown Anchorage to the crowds swarming the streets, it's clear Iditarod is the new Anchorage Fur Rondy Championships.

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DAY 2

Iditarod leaders leave Rainy Pass

As Iditarod mushers Robert Bundtzen and Bryan Bearss headed for this checkpoint high in the Alaska Range on Monday, Iditarod veteran Zack Steer poured himself a cup, took a slurp and settled back to watch the progress of his dogs via the internet.

audio P.M. (APRN)

audio A.M. (APRN)

Norman Vaughn's ashes (APRN)