Iditarod 36
Usually, the number two is good to champion musher Lance Mackey.
Rush is on to mush in Iditarod
Mushers will start signing up for the 2009 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race this morning -- and they better have a fat checking account.
Iditarod film awarded Emmy for second year
The Iditarod Trail Committee won the National Academy of Science Television and Arts Emmy Award on Saturday in Seattle for its 2007 documentary "As Tough as They Come."
Iditarod entry fee up; purse gets cut
The entry fee for Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is going up, the purse is coming down, and still race organizers expect the "Last Great Race" to remain so popular they need to limit the field.
Dog endurance changes racers' strategies
Iditarod mushers are discovering on the trail what scientists have suggested in the laboratory -- that sled dogs are capable of greater feats of endurance than anyone thought.
Iditarod musher King charged with illegal moose kill
Four-time Iditarod champ Jeff King has been charged in federal court with illegally killing a moose in Denali National Park and Preserve.
Iditarod mushers accept honors
For a time Monday, the start to the finish of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race for 62-year-old rookie Deborah Bicknell from Juneau was taking on hints of disaster.
DAY 15
Iditarod Red Lantern winner is ...
With 65 mushers across the finish line and the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race banquet looming today, perhaps the last thing to be settled is the red lantern winner.
The third Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was clearly not the charm for Rachael Scdoris, the vision-impaired musher from Oregon.
DAY 14
Using trail markers as ski poles for the last 70 miles to ease the load for her six dogs remaining in harness, Iditarod rookie Melissa Owens got home Thursday morning just in time for breakfast.
Photos: Owens' run through Nome
Kleedehn is rookie of the year
William Kleedehn of Carcross, Yukon, claimed rookie-of-the year honors for his 28th place finish on Thursday.
DAY 13
Mackey's magical run in Iditarod, Quest
Hardworking blue-collar nice guy Lance Mackey from Fairbanks today owns the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race the way no one has since Doug Swingley at the dawn of the millennium.
Trail gambits throughout Iditarod history
Smyth leads Iditarod pack for third
Smyth leads Iditarod pack for third
While Lance Mackey charged onto Front Street for his second straight Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race victory, more than a dozen teams rested 70 miles away early Wednesday morning on the banks of the Fish River.
DAY 12 - MACKEY WINS THE IDITAROD
Mackey proves Iditarod/Quest wins no fluke
Sled-dog racing pundits said it couldn't be done: Winning both the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest and the 1,100-mile Iditarod in one year, and both in little more than a month. But at 2:46 a.m. today, Lance Mackey and his dogs passed beneath the burled arch in Nome to do it again. Jeff King arrived in second place about 80 minutes later.
Drama plays out as rest of Top 10 finish
Front-running mushers stream across finish line
Photos: Mackey's 2008 Iditarod victory
Iditarod champions of this decade
Drama plays out as rest of Top 10 finish
WHITE MOUNTAIN - While Lance Mackey charged onto Front Street for his second straight Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race victory, more than a dozen teams rested 70 miles away early Wednesday morning here on the banks of the Fish River.
Front-running mushers stream across finish line
A pack of Iditarod mushers followed champion Lance Mackey and runner-up Jeff King across the Nome finish line this morning and early afternoon, creating a scrum for payouts as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race finished for the frontrunners.
Driving his dogs at a blistering 130 mph into Ruby, Martin Buser on Friday was on pace to break his own race record in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The only problem -- the four-time champion from Big Lake was headed back toward Willow.
Iditarod champions of this decade
Winners and their times since 2000.
A 4-year-old dog in the team of veteran Kotzebue musher Ed Iten died Tuesday between Elim and White Mountain, according to the Iditarod Trail Committee.
DAY 11
Mackey leads into last Iditarod checkpoint
WHITE MOUNTAIN - With his dirty, red, arctic snowsuit stripped off and packed away in his sled, defending Iditarod champion Lance Mackey and his team off 11 Alaska huskies set off to run for Nome at 4:53 p.m.
Mackey pushes hard to keep King at bay
Mackey and King ready for stretch run
20 closest finishes in Iditarod history
Lead dog's ashes spread where he often ran best
Snowmachine kills team dog on Yukon
Lead dog's ashes spread where he often ran best
UNALAKLEET -- Feeling melancholy from pouring the ashes of his dead lead dog on the Yukon River, Paul Gebhardt dug deep for happiness late Saturday when he watched green northern lights dance in the sky.
DAY 10
King, Mackey prepare for final charge
Defending Iditarod champion Lance Mackey and four-time victor Jeff King pulled into the Koyuk checkpoint early this afternoon just 130 miles from the finish line on Nome's Front Street and a monumental victory -- no matter which musher wins.
Mackey, King duke it out on last stretch
Snowmachine hits, kills Iditarod dog
DAY NINE
Veteran King grabs Iditarod lead
UNALAKLEET -- The morning fog lifted just hours before four-time Iditarod champion Jeff King rolled into this Bering Sea village to claim the lead for the first time in The Last Great Race.
Mackey looks to recapture winning formula
Iditarod dog dies, musher scratches
Mackey remains the leader, but King is closing on him
DAY EIGHT
Mackey trying to push, but King's closing
Defending champion Lance Mackey pulled out of Nulato at 2:49 this afternoon, still leading the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. But four-time champion Jeff King of Denali Park, with his full complement of 16 dogs still in harness, was starting to close the gap.
King's advantage is in the dogs
DAY SEVEN
Mackey first to head down the Yukon
Defending champion Lance Mackey pulled out of Ruby this afternoon to begin his run down the ice-covered Yukon River in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, hoping to put some distance between him and Jeff King's team of 16 energetic dogs.
King behind Mackey but likes his prospects
Mackey leads pack headed for Ruby
DAY SIX
King makes push to take charge
Is Jeff King the real leader of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race? It was easy to make that argument after King, fresh off his 24-hour layover, pulled into Ophir at 5:06 p.m. Thursday with a full complement of 16 dogs in harness.
Jonrowe collects gold as Gebhardt strays
Swenson feels he can run with the best of them
Race leader is anybody's guess
Meet the mushers video: Joe Garnie
Joe Garnie talks about food, music, and his mixed emotions about mushing. He finished 2nd in 1986 and earned $119.933 over the course of his 16 races.
Meet the mushers video: Aliy Zirkle
Musher Aliy Zirkle talks about her dogs, trail food and her ambitions for the race.
DAY FIVE
Seavey is first musher into Ophir
Former champion Mitch Seavey took the lead into the ghost town of Ophir today as warm, wet conditions blanketed the 36th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Former rookie of the year scratches
Gebhardt doesn't wait with the pack
Swenson seeks victory by putting dogs first
How long is the Iditarod Trail? Depends who you ask
DAY FOUR
Lacking a Hobo, Mackey heads for McGrath
Despite temperatures nearly tropical for hard-working dogs, defending champion Lance Mackey bolted out of Nikolai late Tuesday afternoon to grab the lead in the 36th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Mackey leads charge across Burn
Norwegian first across Farewell Burn
Backen takes early Iditarod role as rabbit
DAY THREE
Mushers scoot as storm blows in
With a storm pushing in fast from the south, the leaders in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race were wasting little time getting the historically worst stretch of the route behind them Monday.
Former champ Seavey moves to the front
The Norwegian Connection is back
DAY TWO: OFFICIAL RESTART
The real race begins: 78 reach Skwentna
WILLOW -- As the 95 mushers and thousand-plus dogs prepared to start the real running of the 36th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday, the sun broke through the clouds to lend a little light and warmth to the proceedings.
Annual Skwentna invasion won't be the same without the Delias
DAY ONE: CEREMONIAL START
Record 96 teams kick off Iditarod
Thousands of people lined Fourth Avenue in downtown and along the 11-mile route to Campbell Airstrip on Saturday to bid a record 96 Iditarod mushers farewell for their formidable winter journey across the wildest reaches of Alaska.
Iditarod mushers leave civilization behind
An adventure like no other begins
Photos: Iditarod 36 Ceremonial start
Slide show: The opening of Iditarod 36
ROCKY POINT, Ore. -- For 10 years, Liz Parrish's life revolved around preparing herself and her dogs for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race through the wilds of Alaska.
| Rank | Musher (bib) |
|---|---|
| 1 | Lance Mackey (6) |
| 2 | Jeff King (11) |
| 3 | Ramey Smyth (48) |
| 4 | Ken Anderson (9) |
| 5 | Martin Buser (13) |
| 6 | Hans Gatt (38) |
| 7 | Mitch Seavey (33) |
| 8 | Paul Gebhardt (69) |
| 9 | Kjetil Backen (42) |
| 10 | Sebastian Schnuelle (68) |
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Check out daily galleries from this year's race, and seven years worth of past Iditarods.
Take a tour of the Iditarod checkpoints with photos pulled from our archive of more than 20 years of races.
Track the race on the musher gallery leader board with updated results and standings.
Seven races worth of images from one of the most remote sporting events in the world.
The race dogs unable to continue the Iditarod are flown back and returned to the mushers or cared for at Hiland Mountain Correctional Facility.
Sign-up for the Iditarod newsletter for updates from the trail, sent out twice daily.
Watch and listen to veterans and rookies alike talk about what the Last Great Race means to them as they get ready for the start of the 36th Iditarod.
Watch and listen to the story of the Father of the Iditarod, Joe Redington Sr.'s, last race.
Two years of ceremonial starts, interviews, a look at the Mackey family of mushers, and more features on The Iditarod.
Susitna Sal meets the devil on the Iditarod trail and challenges him to a mush for his soul.
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