Serum Run: Onward to the coast!
As of the last report the mushers and snowmachiner’s are at Old Woman cabin and will run into Unalakleet today. Unalakleet the biggest town between Anchorage and Nome and is the first checkpoint on the notorious coast. Unalakleet has been made famous recently on the Discovery Channel show, Flying Wild Alaska about the Tweto family […]
Iditarod 2011: Some dreams are already over
We are only two and a half days into the 2011 Iditarod and we already have two scratches. Melissa Owens of Nome, and Zoya DeNure of Gakona. Both of the musher’s Iditarod dreams come to a screeching halt in a notorious portion of the trail, Rainy Pass. Owens, aggravated a leg injury that happened before […]
Mr. Neilsen, Big Brother and Al Gore
Well, that’s it. Either Big Brother is watching me, or I am updating my viewing habits on iPhone apps like Into_Now too much, or I can finally quote my favorite movie scene of all time: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOTDn2A7hcY] The other day I got a large packet in the mail from none other than Mr. Nielsen himself. Yep, […]
On this day…
March 7, 1876: Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone beating out Antonio Meucci by four hours.
Iditarod Gear: To bring or not to bring. That is the question
As the co-editor of Mushing Magazine and the producer of the popular podcast, Mushing, we are asked all of the time what gear do dog mushers bring on the trail. Updated: December 2024 According to the official rules of the Iditarod it says: Rule 16: Mandatory Items: A musher must carry with him/her at all […]