World’s Most Famous Dog Sled Race Is Short on Snow

Brothers take on Alaska sled dog racing together
Brothers Greg and Ricky Taylor have spent the last five months preparing for the 2025 "Open" World Championship Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Alaska, where Greg finished in third place on Sunday, February 23.
Iconic sled dog races — the ‘spirit of the North’ — face a reckoning
Schnuelle recalls hunkering down with his dogs to wait out monstrous storms, travelling through “ungodly overflow” at -55 C, or navigating “jumble ice” — rough ice that forms on the surface of a river due to warming temperatures and the force of the water flowing beneath.
The World’s Most Famous Dog Sled Race Is Short on Snow
When unseasonably warm temperatures left the Iditarod course unusable, organizers were forced to reconfigure a 1,128-mile course through the Alaskan wilderness. The result is a race like nothing before in the event’s 53-year history.
The world’s most famous sled dog race is longer than ever. Here’s a look at Iditarod, by the numbers
Thanks to a lack of snow, this year’s edition of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race needed a new route across the Alaska wilderness. The course change adds more than 100 mile.
Former champion leading John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon, a race shortened by lack of snow
Erin Aili, who won in 2021, is resting with her dogs at the Trail Center, but has a 24-minute lead as of Monday morning.
2025 Iditarod Dog Race Is Longer Than Ever Before Because of the Lack of Snow
Dane Baker in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Anchorage, Ala. on March 1, 2025 The world’s most famous sled dog race is longer than ever this year thanks to a lack of snow. This year’s Iditarod race,
Erin Aili wins this year’s John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon
Former Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon champion Erin Aili recaptured the title this morning, pulling up to the Grand Portage ...
Global warming threatening the future of iconic dog sled races around the world
Climate change could continue to complicate iconic dogsledding races around the country as rising global temperatures make ...
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40th running of the John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon on track, despite warm temperatures
Deteriorating snow led race organizers to move the start of the race from outside Duluth to north of Two Harbors, Minn., ...
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Aili wins her second Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon
GRAND PORTAGE — Erin Aili has won her second John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon. The Ray, Minnesota, musher and her eight-dog ...
Alaska sled dog race raises allegations of animal abuse
The Iditarod is a 1,000-mile race held annually in Alaska. Many argue that the race, which starts this weekend, is a form of ...
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Minnesota woman wins John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon
Erin Aili has earned her second John Beargrease Sled Dog Marathon title. She finished the 267-mile race Tuesday morning, a ...
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Excitement of Iditarod draws Greenfield woman to Alaska
Laurie Beavers says the excitement of the annual 1,000-mile dog sled race has brought her out to Alaska several times over 30 ...
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Why are there so few Iditarod teams this year? It’s the money, mushers say.
Yes, sled dog racing is pricey. This year only 33 teams are making the Iditarod work. That number is tied with a record low ...