Staying Fit & Fueled in the Backcountry – Heather Kelly, Founder of Heather’s Choice One of the most daunting tasks of planning a multi-day backpacking or backcountry expedition is meal planning. How much food do you need to bring to curb hiker hunger and fuel long days chasing the horizon? Do you have any special […]
Lynx In Alaska Plays With Food Before Dinner
The Elusive Lynx – Dinner and a Show March, 2018 Randall Plant and Yukiko Hayano live on the Anchorage, Alaska hillside and recently had a visitor join them for dinner. They were able to photograph the various stages of a Lynx in their yard stalking, catching, playing with, and eating a Vole. What an incredible […]
The Junior Iditarod – 2018 Winner Bailey Schaeffer
Who Gets to be First Down 4th Street for the start of the Iditarod? The winner of the 2018 Junior Iditarod, Bailey Schaeffer! 5 Things to Know About the Junior Iditarod When: The Jr. Iditarod is held the weekend before the Iditarod. The winner of the junior event takes the honorary first position during the ceremonial start of […]
Iditarod Food Drops – 6 Things You may not have Known!
Each year before the racers hit the trail toward Nome, Alaska, each musher ships out close to 2,000 pounds of food and supplies across the 22 Iditarod checkpoints. Included in this nearly one ton of supplies that are dropped along the trail are food for the dogs, food for the mushers, and any other supplies […]
2018 Iron Dog – Day 7 Update
After 2,031 miles of pushing the throttle as hard as they could, Mike Morgan and Chris Olds were first to cross the finish line, breathing a sigh of relief, and meeting waves of friends and family for countless high-fives and hugs. This win marked the third championship for Chris Olds out of 16 Pro-Class starts […]
2018 Iron Dog – Day 6 Update
**Join our mailing list at the button above to get the latest updates!** A day of wrenching came and passed in Nome as riders turned into mechanics and raced the clock to perform repairs to their sleds. Teams are allowed up to two additional sets of hands for this event and often in this tight-knit […]
2018 Iron Dog – Day 4 Coverage
**Want updates as soon as they’re live? Click the ‘Join Our Newsletter’ button above and never be left in the dust!** With racers sitting out what is likely the longest delay of the Iron Dog race since its inception in 1984, the leaderboard appeared top heavy. It didn’t only appear top heavy, it certainly WAS […]
2018 Iron Dog – Day 3 Coverage
Undoubtedly, year after year, an Iron Dog participant pits itself against each and every racer, making life difficult for even the most seasoned veterans in the worlds longest race of this type. This participant isn’t riding an Arctic Cat, Skidoo, Polaris…or even a Yamaha, but is Mother Nature herself. Be it forty below zero temps, […]
2018 Iron Dog – Day 2 Coverage
Team 10 of Chris Olds and Mike Morgan were first to lead one of the largest, if not a record setting, number of teams to make it to McGrath after the first day of Iron Dog racing. Many prior years of racing saw only half of the pro-class racers make the McGrath checkpoint by the […]
2018 Iron Dog – Day 1 Coverage
Airplanes buzzing overhead, bass lines thumping over a loud speaker, and the familiar ‘raaap’ and scent of two-stroke engines being warmed and readied by racers in the 2018 Iron Dog. Twenty eight Pro-Class teams rounded off the field as they crossed over the starting line in this years race to Fairbanks, via Nome as a […]
Perfect 10: Team USA roster packed with Alaskans
When U.S. Ski & Snowboard recently announced its 20-person cross-country ski team to represent and race for America in the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018 in South Korea, it also selected a team that would represent and race for Alaska. In one of the most exciting milestones in Alaska Nordic skiing’s already storied history, half […]
Fulfilling a Dream: Wiluk River Dolly Varden
Fulfilling a Dream: Wiluk River Dolly Varden The flight out of Kotzebue aboard two small bush planes packed with our self-bailing raft, fishing gear, and provisions seemed surreal. I had dreamed of making a self-guided trip to the Wulik River for more than a decade, sport fishing for large sea-run dolly varden which seasonally migrate […]
