The son of respected longtime musher John Barron, Jason Barron and his brothers Laird and Will grew up around sled dogs, helping train their father’s champion teams and doing chores in the family dog lot in Alaska. Their father’s racing history not only included close to 30 Iditarods between 1978 and 2006, but two first-place [...]
Craig Medred has been writing about the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race for three decades, from following the race as Outdoor Editor for the Anchorage Daily News to his latest gig as a staff writer for the online newsmagazine Alaska Dispatch. Most fans of the race who’ve been around for more than a couple of [...]
Alaska Dispatch’s Team & Trail blog presents a wide-ranging collection of articles and news items relating to sled dog racing in Alaska, written by Northern Light Media’s Helen Hegener. Here are a few of the more interesting posts which have appeared over the past few weeks:
Jujiro Wada: Co-founder of Fairbanks and Iditarod trailblazer There [...]
Earlier this week I received a comment on one of my posts from a reader, Drid Williams, who asked at the end of her note if I’d reviewed Mitch Seavey’s recent book, Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way!
I said no, I hadn’t, although I’d been meaning to for some time, but I [...]
The 2010 Iditarod was one for the record books, with the incomparable Champion Lance Mackey and his Dream Team setting the pace for the second-fastest time ever recorded, resulting in an unprecedented fourth victory for the master musher from Fairbanks. Iditarod’s Eye on the Trail blogger Bruce Lee wrote, “History was just made. For [...]