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A Frantic Race on the Sea Ice

Racer on snowmachine (snowmobile), racing along the snow-covered, frozen Bering Sea near the shoreline of Nome.

The wildly popular annual Nome-Golovin Snowmachine Race attracts a large slate of competitors from throughout Western Alaska for a furiously fast run from Nome’s sea ice to the neighboring village of Golovin and back.

The 2018 champion, Jarvis Miller of Nome, made the 190-mile round trip in only 2 hours 8 minutes. His average speed was 89 MPH!

The speeds and intensity of Nome-Golovin make for frantic few hours. KNOM broadcasts minute-by-minute details to listeners. Kotzebue radio station KOTZ simulcasts KNOM’s coverage well north of the Arctic Circle.

Your support allows the station to bring widely-sought sports and news coverage to thousands of people on this exciting, fast-paced race day. Thank you!

Image at top: A racer departs the Nome-Golovin start-finish line. Photo: Zoe Grueskin, KNOM.

Karen and Gabe, wearing heavy parkas, smile inside a small shack near the start line of the Nome-Golovin Snowmachine Race.
Volunteers Karen Trop and Gabe Colombo, in between on-air reports from race headquarters. Photo: Zoe Grueskin, KNOM.

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We acknowledge that KNOM Radio Mission is located on the customary lands of Indigenous peoples. 

Based in the Bering Strait region, KNOM broadcasts throughout the homelands of the Iñupiaq, Siberian Yup’ik, Cup’ik and Yup’ik peoples.