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 [...]
“On a cold spring day in 1907 a group of us gathered around the stove in a Nome saloon and began talking about dog races. After a few weeks of arguing we worked out the rules of the ‘All-Alaska Sweepstakes.’” -A.A. “Scotty” Allan, in Gold, Men and Dogs (G.P. Putnam, 1931)
The historic All Alaska Sweepstakes [...]
Washington, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Young’s resolution honoring Lance Mackey passed the House this evening after being brought to the floor for debate this afternoon. H.Res. 1189 commends Lance Mackey on winning a record 4th straight Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Watch a video of Rep. Young’s remarks here.
Rep. Young’s floor remarks as [...]
The Yukon Quest and Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races have seen many foreign teams enter and finish their 1,000 mile courses, but the mushers are usually from similar northern climates, or at least from places where it gets cold enough to wear mittens and snow boots once in a while.
When Oswald “Newton” Marshall signed on [...]
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 [...]