Outdoors/Adventure
Dan Seavey, mushing patriarch who raced the first Iditarod, dies at 87
Seavey finished third in the first Iditarod in 1973. His son Mitch and grandson Dallas have won the race multiple times.
Bicycling mentorship program Anchorage GRIT aims to instill confidence in girls
GRIT was founded by Cait Rodriguez and Lael Wilcox in 2017.
The gender gap has narrowed in climbing. These women have closed it.
As a recent historic climb attests, Olympians Brooke Raboutou and Janja Garnbret are pushing women’s outdoor climbing, and each other, to new heights.
First 30 miles of Denali Park Road opening Friday to private vehicles
The early access is thanks to warmer weather and low-snow levels in the park this winter, officials say.
27 days on foot: Teaming up for a 1,000-mile trek to Nome in the Iditarod Trail Invitational
Kari Gibbons, in her first traverse of the full 1,000-mile route, and Petr Ineman — who’d previously done it on a bike and on skis — joined forces on the trail this year.
A musher was cut from the Iditarod for being too far behind. He went to Nome anyway.
Quince Mountain was withdrawn from the Iditarod under the race’s rule on competitiveness, but ended up driving a small team to the finish line.
Teen snowmachiner dies in Turnagain Pass avalanche amid challenging conditions
Saturday’s incident, in which a teenage boy from Soldotna was buried about 10 feet deep and died, marks the second fatal avalanche in Southcentral Alaska this month.
Summer is coming for national parks. Will there be enough workers?
Federal workers who were fired from national parks don’t know whether they’ll reclaim their jobs. In the meantime, travelers can shoulder more responsibility.
Czech skiers celebrate 10th anniversary at Iditarod Trail Invitational
Jan and Petra Francke raced 350 miles to McGrath and say the journey made their marriage stronger than ever 10 years in.
2025 Iditarod wraps with 22 finishers, fewest since first race in 1973
Mushers said the altered race route out of Fairbanks was far tougher than they’d anticipated. The last time a winner took more than 10 days to finish was in the early 1990s.
Traveling through time along the trail in the 2025 Iditarod
The Tolovana Roadhouse — built in 1924 and used to provide shelter during the Serum Run of 1925 — once again hosted mushers in 2025.
Jessie Holmes wins the Iditarod after five top-10 finishes
The 43-year-old Alaskan’s victory is a capstone in a relatively short but remarkably successful career in the race to Nome.
Jessie Holmes is first Iditarod musher to leave Safety, setting up early Friday victory in Nome
A win would be the first career title in the race for Holmes, who finished third in 2022 and 2024.
Snowmachiner rescued near Paxson after dropping 60 feet into glacier crevasse
Two groups helped extricate the injured man from deep in the ice, according to one rescuer.
Jessie Holmes maintains his lead heading into the Iditarod homestretch
The veteran musher has maintained a consistent lead over Matt Hall and Paige Drobny for much of the past week.
Jessie Holmes leads Iditarod mushers as race reaches the coast
None of the three teams battling one another along the portage to Unalakleet and the trail beyond has ever won the race before.
Pregnant dog on Iditarod rookie’s team collapses and dies outside Galena, race says
More mushers dropped out of the race Friday, bringing the total number of scratches to five so far, out of a field of 33 competitors.
Tired Iditarod teams battle the sandman — and an actual sandstorm — on the trail
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race teams at the head of the pack were wrapping up their mandatory 24-hour breaks at checkpoints along the trail Friday.
Iditarod musher Brenda Mackey says she scratched after a dog emergency on the trail
Mackey described trying to care for a collapsed animal and doubling back to the Tanana checkpoint after requesting help, and her later confusion over how the situation was initially characterized.
Efforts to recover 3 heli-skiers buried in avalanche near Girdwood on hold due to dangerous conditions
The Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center also issued a special bulletin warning of dangerous avalanche conditions in the mountains across a wide swath of Southcentral Alaska.
Iditarod teams in Galena rest after a trail slog — and a feast, in Paige Drobny’s case
“It’s been tough and slow, but we’re making it,” 2023 Iditarod champion Ryan Redington said as temperatures hovered in the 30s.
Iditarod mushers reach the Yukon after a tough trail, with two teams trained on the Denali Highway at the front
Paige Drobny of Cantwell was the first musher to the Ruby checkpoint.
Anchorage couple train together but chase different goals at Iditarod Trail Invitational
Fat-bikers John Lackey and Kara Oney are veterans of the Iditarod Trail Invitational’s 350-mile race, which this year covered a long stretch of barren ground between Rainy Pass and Rohn.
Heli-skiers killed by massive avalanche came to Alaska from different states but grew up together in Minnesota
The slide Tuesday afternoon buried the three men on a trip near Girdwood.
3 heli-skiers die in massive avalanche near Girdwood
Tuesday’s slide measured more than a half-mile long with a debris pile estimated to be 40 to 100 feet deep, authorities said.
Multiple heli-skiers caught in avalanche near Girdwood with immediate recovery not possible, troopers say
The depth of the snow kept the heli-ski company from being able to recover the skiers Tuesday, an Alaska State Troopers spokesman said.
Soup, sleep and sunset: Nenana hosts Iditarod’s first race checkpoint
Most mushers took their first rest on the Tanana River ice at Nenana.
Rare Iditarod restart in Fairbanks draws crowds for ‘NASCAR with dogs’
Both locals and visitors were enthusiastic for the Interior-based Iditarod restart, which hadn’t been held in Fairbanks since 2017.
‘Prepared to be adaptable’: Mushers leave Fairbanks to officially launch a historic 53rd Iditarod
This year’s 1,128-mile sled-dog race follows a novel route through Interior Alaska with a loop on the Yukon River. “We are all rookies,” Big Lake musher Nicolas Petit joked.
‘It would just feel like a big accomplishment’: Meet 7 Iditarod rookies trying to reach Nome
This year’s crop of 16 rookies makes up nearly half of the race field, an abnormally high percentage.