Year of High-Fives
This year during the ceremonial start of the Iditarod it seemed to me it was the “year of high-fives”. Every year as the mushers run down the streets and bike…
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Windy in Unalakleet
Last night we arrived into Unalakleet with winds over 30mph with blowing snow. Our Iditarod Air Force Pilot, Jerry, did a flawless job on landing in those conditions. Once we…
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Welcoming Arm in Huslia
Welcome to Huslia. Huslia is a small village located on the banks of the Koyokuk river, which is a tributary of the Yukon River. This is the home town of…
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Welcome to Unk! March 10, 2013
We spent a few hours in the morning in Kaltag and then hitched a ride with Mike Swalling again to Unalakleet. Check out a couple photos from Kaltag and a…
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Volunteer Meeting
January 8, 2013 Potential and returning Iditarod volunteers gather at the Millenium Hotel Redington Ballroom to discuss volunteer postions for this year’s Iditarod race to begin March 2nd in downtown…
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Vet Checks February 26, 2013
This morning I went to Iditarod Headquarters in Wasilla and photographed the army of volunteer veterinarians at the mandatory vet check. Each dog must be examined by a vet for…
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Unalakleet, Monday, March 11, 2013
Unalakleet — 7 below zero here this morning. I was happy to have a nice early breakfast with my friends the Ekenweilers. As usual, they loaned me their snowmachine and…
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Unalakleet Checkpoint, March 10, 2013
It’s Sunday evening in Unalakleet. Had a nice, simple, non-turbulent, flight from Kaltag with Mike Swalling. As we flew over, I noticed race sponsor Penair’s airplane on the tarmac. And…
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Trading a Ruby for a Galena
The mushers are making their way further west on the Yukon River and where ever they are going we are sure to follow. Today we followed them from Ruby to…
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Thursday March 7, 2013
It’s early evening and I’m in the ghost-town of Iditarod. Woke up early this morning at Takotna, shot some images just before dawn and then Erin and I flew with…
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The story behind the photo — Aliy Zirkle Sunset
The Iditarod village checkpoint of Koyuk, 4th to the finish in Nome, is in an ideal location to get both great sunrise photos and also great sunset photos because of…
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Tanana in the Morning
Another cold morning in the bush. We spent the night in the Tanana Teen Center. First thing you do when you are sleeping with others who are also trying to…
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Takotna March 6, 2013
After a quick stop in Nikolai, we spent the night in Takotna at the Takotna School. Jeff went to bed early and got up before sunrise to photograph incoming mushers…
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Takotna Checkpoint, March 6, 2013, Afternoon
Lots of teams resting in the falling snow here in Takotna this afternoon, and Jeff Schultz hard at work photographing all the dogs.
Straw Bagging
Iditarod is coming around the corner. It felt like “old-home week” again today when I went to Airland Transport and saw many of the same volunteers bagging over 1600 bales…
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Still in Galena
Galena is a checkpoint that is usually only used when the trail runs the northern route on even years. Since last year, 2014, was an even year the mushers, dogs,…
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Saturday in Nome
It’s Saturday in Nome. The last couple days has been spent mostly editing the 10,000 plus photos taken during the race, getting them captioned and sorted for the www.iditarodphotos.com website as well…
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Rainy Pass March 4 & 5 2013
Tuesday March 5th — Nikolai 5 pm. So I’ve been off-line and out of touch of the normal world as of 1 pm yesterday when I left Rainy Pass with…
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Rainy Pass Checkpoint March 4, 2013
Paul Gebhardt leaves the Rainy Pass checkpoint March 4, 2013.
Race Restart in Willow March 3, 2013
Sunday March 3rd 8:30 pm at Finger Lake—- Today was a rush-rush day doing the restart and then flying here to Finger Lake. Like previous years I had my friend…
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Out of Tanana and into Ruby
Most of the mushers have left Tanana and are running the frozen Yukon River. They will take 119 miles of the Yukon to get to the village of Ruby. Some…
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Nikolai Checkpoint March 5, 2013
A really quick stop for Jeff and Erin at the Nikolai checkpoint before we pushed on to Takotna. More to come!
Nenana Here we come.
Today is the re-start of the 2015 Iditarod. Due to the lack of snow the re-start was moved from Willow to Fairbanks. The last time the trail started in Fairbanks…
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