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Remembering 40 Years of Iditarod: This is not the Last Great Rest 31 Jan 2012 | 05:26 am
Prior to the 1978 race, three young ladies were in training for the Iditarod. Susan Butcher, Varona Thompson, and Shelley Gill Vandiver. To get in practice for the conditions that would be faced du...
Remembering 40 Years of Iditarod… 22 Jan 2012 | 04:54 am
Kenneth Huston of the Sheffield Hotel in Anchorage, flew to Nome prior to the 1984 Nome Banquet with 700 pounds of meat, gallons and gallons of salads, crates of cauliflower, cases of green beans and ...
Remembering 40 Years of Iditarod… On January 20, 1981… 21 Jan 2012 | 05:55 pm
Photo by Bill Devine, 1981 Iditarod Trail Annual Remembering 40 Years of Iditarod… On January 20, 1981, Joe Redington, Sr., Herbie Nayokpuk, and Col. Norman Vaughan represented Alaska in the inaugura...
The Ultimate Experience 17 Jan 2012 | 06:48 pm
The Wards at the ReStart By Ed Ward I wouldn’t have thought that the Iditarod “Ultimate Experience” could possibly be an understatement. Then I tried it. Now, months later, still organizing the hu...
Remembering 40 Years… From the 1988-89 Archives 6 Jan 2012 | 08:01 pm
The honorary musher for the 1988 Iditarod was “Muktuk” Marston. Elsie Marston, his wife, led the pre race festivities and cut the ribbon at the start of the race. “Muktuk’s” nick name came due to hi...
Remembering 40 Years of Iditarod… From the 1989 Trail Annual 30 Dec 2011 | 07:59 pm
Gordon Brinker placed 44th in the 1988 Iditarod. His time was 18:07:44:07. Gordon came to Alaska from Oregon in 1979. He lived in Shell Lake- where the historic Iditarod Trail ran right behind his h...
Remembering 40 Years of Iditarod… 1988 – 1989 22 Dec 2011 | 03:18 am
Jan Masek placed 12th in the 1988 Iditarod. Masek escaped from Czechoslovakia in as stolen race car. He came to the United States in 1967. Masek began mushing in 1969. During the 1984 race, Masek ...
Remembering 40 Years of Iditarod… 1982 – 1985 16 Dec 2011 | 03:06 am
From the 1984 Iditarod Trail Annual Anne Patch of Homer was the administrative coordinator for the 1982 Iditarod. She also served in that capacity in 1981 so brought a wealth of experience to the jo...
Remembering 40 Years of Iditarod 5 Dec 2011 | 09:56 am
From the 1983 Trail Annual Jack Hooker, Montana, in the 1977 Iditarod Trail Annual recalled that he had a strange experience when he left Shaktoolik during the 1976 race. He’d stayed overnight there...
Remembering 40 Years of Iditarod. . . 25 Nov 2011 | 01:59 am
Remembering 40 Years of Iditarod. . . From our archives…. Conrad Saussele placed 29th int the 1988 Iditarod. In the 1989 Iditarod Trail Annual, Conrad said, “There are beautiful things, glaciers up...
