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The ceremonial start takes place on March 1 in Anchorage, Alaska, with the official restart scheduled for March 3 in Fairbanks. The altered route extends the race distance to over 1,100 miles (1,770 ...

The 2025 edition will also feature a field low on experience, as 16 rookies — defined as any musher who does not have an ...

Climate change could continue to complicate iconic dogsledding races around the country as rising global temperatures make ...

Musher Quince Mountain is about to embark on his second Iditarod, a long-distance dogsled race across Alaska. We asked him ...

1967 - The first Iditarod is held, with 58 mushers competing along a 50-mile trail. March 1973 - After shorter races in 1967 and 1969, the first full-length race takes place. The course is ...

Fern Levitt, director of the documentary "Sled Dogs," an expose on the ... he has withdrawn from next year's race in protest and expects the Iditarod Trail Committee to ban him anyway for speaking ...

Recognized as one of the premier and gruelling mid-distance sled dog races in the United States, the UP200 covers a 230-mile route to Grand Marais before returning to Marquette along the same trail, ...

The Race to the Sky's premier sled ... dogs get from their handlers and veterinarians. In total the race was only about 150 miles long, making it the shortest race in the event’s history ...

MCCALL, Idaho — Coalville musher Wade Donaldson and his team of 12 dogs were about ... between the time the trail was groomed the night before and the race, so sled teams had to go over a ...

When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn More The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is an iconic annual event that takes place in Alaska, covering a grueling ...