Iditarod 2011: Know when to fold ’em
The buzz around Fourth Avenue in Anchorage at the ceremonial start for this year’s Iditarod is that musher number 34 Paul Gebhardt would give Lance Mackey a run for his money. Gebhardt’s dog truck was sitting right next to us at the staging area for the start, one that he shared with Kristy Berington (#7) […]
Iditarod 2011: Leased teams and rookie mistakes
On yesterday’s episode of Mush! You Huskies we spoke about a little known fact about the Iditarod. Leased teams. While leasing a team to run The Last Great Race, is not new and has been around for years, it is something that the casual fan doesn’t know much about. According to our Iditarod expert on […]
Iditarod 2011 Day 4 on Mush! You Huskies
Mush! You Huskies: Iditarod coverage day 4
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 […]