Looking back a few years… Harm & I, walking up to the burled arch in Nome at the completion of 2002 Iditarod. Our dual wedding ceremony the following day, under the arch… I dearly love that woman, yes, but just as importantly I respect that woman–she ran our mushing business with honor and talent, and […]
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Tension on the Iditarod Trail
April 16, 2011 
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…We saw that video interview with Lance, and while he promised to keep on fighting the good fight, it was perfectly obvious that he knew he was up a creek without a paddle. Martin looking like the old, confident version of himself from the past when it had been he who’d dominated–Sebastian, Hugh and Hans […]
Continue readingAn Unlikely Hero ~ Harmony Barron
April 6, 2011 10 Comments
I wanted to recognize an old timer here at our home, our dear retired lead dog ‘Spud’. He acquired this name due to the fact that as a pup, his giant round grey head resembled nothing less then a large russet potato, balancing on his spinally little body. He was kind of an unlikely little […]
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March 20, 2011 8 Comments
I ran my first Iditarod in 1993 at the tender age of 21 years–I certainly didn’t feel “tender”. Full of youthful optimism and arrogance, I strode onto 4th Ave in downtown Anchorage all those long days ago feeling like I was ten feet tall and bulletproof, as if the length and girth of my manhood […]
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March 16, 2011 6 Comments
Last year, I started my run in the Iditarod swinging for a homerun right out of the starting gate. We did well for a while, but a gift basket assortment of nagging injuries left over from the Beargrease the month prior knocked me back somewhat, and a wicked nasty case of the doggy flu pretty […]
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