Local mushers compete in the 2025 Akiak Dash. This story was produced by KYUK and Northern Journal. Charlie Chingliak is a budding high school basketball player in the Western Alaska Native ...

RELATED: From parking lots to race tracks: The secret behind the UP200’s downtown snow track The shortest of the three dog sled races, The Jack Pine 30, concluded Saturday morning. Musher ...

“You get the muscle dogs,” he said. Welcome to the mushing-crazed Kuskokwim Delta — the one region of Alaska where the sport of mushing seems to be thriving, not just surviving. Elsewhere in ...

Seventeen mushers will lead teams consisting of 12 dogs across 228 miles, trekking through hills, creek crossings, deep snow and isolated trails from Marquette to Grand Marais and back.

"When I first got into dog mushing, dry land racing was, like, kind of a new thing," she said, "and now, it's super popular, because we don't have the good winters anymore, typically." But this ...

Local sled dog racers are gearing up to bring their dogs back onto the snowy tails, after the 2024 season that confined them to the dry land circuit. Mushers say the sport is growing statewide.

but at 6:25 a.m. PST Tuesday the Idaho Sled Dog Challenge announced it was canceling the remainder of the race. "The safety of our mushers and their teams is paramount," race co-founder and trails ...

They are getting ready now, wondering if the race will bring prize money, glory to their dogs, or just some quiet laughter from the other mushers. The Iditarod Trail. It has come to mean “The Trail” ...