Date archives: June 8, 2018

As I write these lines, the Yukon Quest and Iditarod both have long come to an end. The Iditarod has a new champion with Joar Leifseth Ulsom. The last time a musher not named Seavey won Iditarod was 2011 with John Baker. 2011 was also the year that Allen Moore…

The winter of 2017/2018 goes into the weather annals as one of the snowiest and stormiest years since early 1900s when weather data started being collected in northwestern Alaska. And it was the weather that drove much of this year’s narrative of the 44th running of The Last Great Race….

Joar Leifseth Ulsom is not a new name in the Alaskan mushing circuit, but to the broader public, not much was known about this quiet Norwegian musher who burst onto the Alaskan dog mushing scene in 2013. In conversations among media or mushers, he was referred to as “The Norwegian”,…

The Finnmarksløpet open class 14-dog team class is the longest sled dog race in Norway and Europe. The Finnmarksløpet had its inaugural run in 1981 and in the last 20 years, only 10 to 30 teams finished the open class race. The race starts and finishes in Alta in northern…