Iron Dog

McKenna, VanMeter win Iron Dog by more than an hour

Holding a bottle of champagne in one hand and his 3 1/2-year-old daughter, Asa, in the other, Marc McKenna tipped the bottle up, took a big swig and then shook it up and sprayed family and friends who had surrounded him to celebrate his and Dusty VanMeter's victory in the Iron Dog on Saturday.

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McKenna, VanMeter holding steady in Iron Dog

With two Iron Dog titles to his name, Marc McKenna knows what it takes to win the longest and toughest snowmachine race in the world.
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Morgan and Olds lead Iron Dog at Kaltag

Mike Morgan and Chris Olds were the first Iron Dog team to reach Kaltag on Thursday, pulling in at 3:59 p.m. and declaring their mandatory 10-hour layover.
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Iron Dog team still in race reaches Nome

Of the 31 Iron Dog teams that left Big Lake on Sunday, 27 safely reached Nome, the halfway point of the 2,000-mile snowmachine race to Fairbanks.
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Iron Dog leaders in Nome

Led by drivers Marc McKenna and Dusty VanMeter, eight Iron Dog teams arrived in Nome on Tuesday, marking the halfway point of the 2,000-mile snowmachine race from Big Lake to Fairbanks.
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Iron Dog starts today

Thirty-one Iron Dog racers will leave Big Lake today and head into the wilderness for a 2,000-mile journey across Alaska in the 28th running of the world's longest and toughest snowmachine race.
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Iron Dog start line is flooded

Recommended gear for Sunday's Iron Dog start at Big Lake might include hip waders. Reports of standing water -- perhaps 18 inches of it -- could make things messy when 31 pro teams leave the frozen lake Sunday afternoon for the start of the 2,000-mile race across Alaska.
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Defending Iron Dog champs to race with new partners

Chris Olds and Tyler Huntington won't be defending their title in February's Iron Dog snowmachine race -- at least not together.
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Polaris revved up about how its machines performed in Iron Dog

Champions Chris Olds of Eagle River and Tyler Huntington of Fairbanks weren't the only ones ecstatic at the result of the Iron Dog, that ended Saturday night in Fairbanks with the team's second consecutive victory.
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Huntington-Olds team wins the Iron Dog snowmachine race

Tyler Huntington of Fairbanks and Chris Olds of Eagle River repeated as Iron Dog champions early Saturday evening, passing the team of Todd Palin and Eric Quam in the final 100 miles of the 2,000-mile snowmachine race across Alaska.
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Wild Iron Dog headed for close finish tonight

A crazy Iron Dog snowmobile race battered by nasty weather and driver mishaps looked to be headed for a logical ending tonight, with two of the top teams gunning it for the finish line neck-in-neck.