The new course reroutes mushers and their dog teams around a difficult stretch of trail north of the Alaska Range, which is treacherous with snow and ice but mostly unpassable in dry conditions ...

Jessie Holmes, Matt Hall and Paige Drobny have jockeyed for first for much of the race, leapfrogging one another on the trail ...

The teams settled for the night at Camp Nuuk ... member of Sarah Richards' dog team, illuminated by a headlamp. The next morning, while the dogs ate breakfast, the mushers reflected on Kaasen ...

Ten mushers didn't finish the race, and one pregnant female dog on the team of musher Daniel Klein died. Klein was forced to withdraw because of the death.

The Freking family and other mushers help out after finishing the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon in March 2025. They competed for the first time as a family of four.

Currently there are 23 mushers left competing, with the Red Lantern musher currently in Kaltag. Zachariah Hughes covers Anchorage government, the military, dog mushing, subsistence issues and ...