Race Season

Sled dog rests in straw on snow-covered ground

Last year’s winner Ryan Redington returns, along with other Iditarod finishers and local Northwest Arctic competitors.

A pilot, passenger and dog sitting inside a bush plane

Fans following the 2022 Iditarod GPS tracker may have noticed a marker moving along the trail that was not a musher. Labeled simply as “teacher,” this marker showed the position of Jim Deprez, Iditarod 2022’s Teacher on the Trail.

It is night time and 2 people are standing under the Nome finish line

KNOM Radio covered the top 25 mushers’ arrival into Nome during the 50th running of the Iditarod sled dog race. You’ll hear from each of the top 25 and also a couple extra mushers including this year’s “Red Lantern” Apayuaq Reitan.

Aaron Burmeister finished the 2022 Iditarod sled dog race the evening of March 15 in 8th place. Even though bringing an Iditarod win home to Nome has continued to elude him, after more than 20 years of competing, Burmeister said it’s time to focus on other parts of his life.

Pete Kaiser raced across the Iditarod finish line at 9:45 p.m. Tuesday in fifth place.

Musher throws fist onto air while fishing sled dog race

Dan Kaduce raced across the finish line in Nome Tuesday evening in fourth, pumping his fist in the air, as the sun started to set over the Bering Sea.

Head shot of man wearing jacket and headlamp.

Brent Sass looked like he had a comfortable lead Monday night over Dallas Seavey, heading into his final Iditarod run from White Mountain to the Nome finish.

Man holding a flag in the air. Snow machine racers about to start on snowy trail

This year’s Nome-Golovin champion was open-class racer Tre West, who finished with a time of 2:05:50. West has been racing in the Nome-Golovin since he was 18, and has competed in other regional snowmachine races as well — he won the Archie Ferguson/Willie Goodwin Sr. Memorial Snowmachine Race in 2018.