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What to know about the longest, smallest, flattest Iditarod yet as it begins in Anchorage and Fairbanks
With just 33 competitors, this year’s race is tied with 2023 for having the smallest field. But the mushers will travel a ...
Alaska Public Media1d
The 2025 Iditarod starts on Saturday. Here’s what to know.
The Iditarod starts with a parade-like celebration in Anchorage on Saturday, March 1.
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Interior Alaska communities now along the Iditarod trail sprint to make way for mushers
Business owners and checkpoint volunteers say they're busy readying food and beds for Iditarod teams after race organizers’ ...
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From focused foot racers to touring bikers, athletes take different approaches to Iditarod Trail Invitational
Participants have signed up to race the 150-, 350- or full 1,000-mile distance, and this year the trail will present some ...
Alaska Public Media7h
Kenyan students send bracelets for Iditarod mushers
Brad Schmitz personally distributed the bracelets to mushers Thursday. He's raising funds for the students to visit Alaska ...
Erie News Now6h
Iditarod Fast Facts
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 ...
The Associated Press on MSN10d
Lack of snow north of the Alaska Range prompts Iditarod to move official start to Fairbanks
A lack of snow along a dangerous stretch of trail has led organizers of the world’s most famous sled dog race to move the ...
A lack of snow is irrevocably changing an historic Alaskan sled-dog tradition
A lack of snow is irrevocably changing an historic Alaskan sled-dog tradition - The world's most famous sled dog race will ...