The future of Iditarod dreams?

  I have been looking forward to this day since I was in the Sierra Nevada foothills last summer to pick out a pup from a musher friend of mine. The goal was simple; find a pup that would have the potential to be a sled dog and become the beginning of something big. When […]

The Serum Run: Sled Dogs Save the Day–Part 2

A call for help was flashed across the wires and dog teams were posted at way stations along the route.  In an attempt to bring recognition to all the souls that braved the trail, the following account, in its entirety, was taken from Coppinger’s World of Sled Dogs: From Siberia to Sport Racing (Howell Book […]

Yukon Quest: Human drama of athletic competition

The roller coast that best describes this year’s Yukon Quest sled dog race is coming to a close. Last night at 11:50 (AST) rookie Dallas Seavey of Willow, AK pulled into Fairbanks after a 1,000 mile-10 day odyssey that will sure go down into the history books as one of the most dramatic Quests of […]

The future home of Iditarod dreams: What is a dream worth?

It is less than 24 hours since Michele left and I am seriously having the blues. I wont see her for at least four months and I am questioning if it is all worth it. I know what many of you will say: time will pass quickly enough and you just miss her… I can […]

The Future Home of Iditarod Dreams: Dream Big

In Alaska you can taste the American Dream…. The American Dream is distilled to it’s essence up here in the Last Frontier. Take yourself and go out and try to make a success of it. What did the great explorer Norman Vaughan say: Dream Big and Dare to Fail   Robert Forto | Team Ineka […]

The Future Home of Iditarod Dreams: Guiding Light

Only a musher window shops at the local feed store. I was in Underdog Feed in Wasilla yesterday picking up meat and kibble for the dogs and chit chatting away when something in the display case caught my eye. It was three new headlamps they just got in from a company in Germany called Lupine […]

The future home of Iditarod dreams: 50 grand for a belt buckle?

As many of my rabid readers, friends and fans know by now, I am in Alaska training for the 2013 Iditarod. It will be on the hardest two and a half years of my life, Guaranteed. I have sacrificed a lot just to get to this point and we are not even close to thinking […]

The future home of Iditarod dreams: Taking the prettiest girl to the dance

If you can remember way back to when you were in the sixth grade, I bet you had dances at your school didn’t you? Talking to the guys here: I also bet you wanted to take the prettiest girl to the dance too right? Well now that I have this image entrenched into your memory, […]

The future home of Iditarod dreams: Share your knowledge, peddle for a buck

Everybody writes books these days. Many people in the Iditarod world run the race once and feel the desire to write a book, even if they have nothing remarkable to say and they are in the middle or the end of the pack when they cross under the burled arch in Nome. My plan is […]

The Future Home of Iditarod Dreams: Mushers Little Secret

In the day and age of drug testing in sports and the attempt to make competition fair to everyone, even mushing (dog sledding) is not immune. [ Rewind: Mushers to be tested for drugs during the 2010 Iditarod ] Mushers on races like the Iditarod not only battle the harsh Alaskan elements and below zero […]