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Updated: Feb. 20, 2021 at 1:03 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Team 6, Robby Schachle and Brad George are the 2021 Iron Dog champions.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2021 at 8:38 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
he 2021 Iron Dog has reached the 2,326-mile mark of the 2021 race with Team 14, Casey Boylan and Bryan Leslie, leading at the Puntilla checkpoint.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2021 at 8:19 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
The 2021 Iron Dog has turned into a family affair.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2021 at 1:00 AM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Team 14 leads the 2021 Iron Dog at the McGrath checkpoint heading southbound.
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Updated: Feb. 17, 2021 at 6:54 PM AKST
|By Austin Sjong
The top teams now attacking the Kotzebue loop, a 375 mile route that debuted in the 2020 race.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2021 at 7:00 PM AKST
|By Austin Sjong
Iron Dog racers enjoyed a rare day off and had a chance to wrench on their sleds as they prepare for the second half of the race.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2021 at 7:23 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Team 6, Rob Schachle Brad George lead the 2021 Iron Dog at the Nome checkpoint.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2021 at 2:38 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Iron Dog Team 7, Tyler Aklestad and Nick Olstad have scratched at the Unalakleet checkpoint.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2021 at 11:07 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Iron Dog Team 5, Brett Lapham and Zack Weisz have moved into first place at the Galena checkpoint with a course time of 12 hours 39 minutes and 45 seconds.
Updated: Feb. 13, 2021 at 11:07 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Team 6, Robby Schachle and Brad George lead the 2021 Iron Dog at the McGrath checkpoint
7 Day Forecast
Updated: Feb. 13, 2021 at 6:13 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow and Austin Sjong
The 2021 Iron Dog began Saturday at Big Lake with 23 pro-class teams taking on a 2,645-mile trail.
Updated: Feb. 12, 2021 at 11:14 PM AKST
|By Austin Sjong
Isreal Hale is looking to become the first ever amputee to complete the Iron Dog Pro class race.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2021 at 6:50 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
The 2021 Iron Dog begins on Saturday at Big Lake.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2021 at 11:07 PM AKST
|By Austin Sjong
Sixteen-year-old Evan Barber is set to become the youngest racer to ever compete in the Iron Dog.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2020 at 1:28 PM AKST
|By MK Burgess
Nick Olstad and Tyler Aklestad of Team 7 took first place in the 2020 Iron Dog race.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2020 at 5:41 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Iron Dog Team #7, Tyler Akelstad, and Nick Olstad, lead the 2020 Iron Dog at the Ruby checkpoint.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2020 at 6:33 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Iron Dog team no. 7, Tyler Aklestad and Nick Olstad lead the 2020 Pro Class Race at the Kotzebue checkpoint. In the recreational class race, Team no. 77’s Israel Hale made history becoming the first-ever amputee to finish and win the race.
Updated: Feb. 15, 2020 at 3:39 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
The Iron Dog hopes a new race route and a new Iron Dog-themed beer help revitalize the world's longest and toughest snowmachine race in 2020.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2020 at 6:26 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Team No. 16's Todd Minnick is returning to the Iron Dog this year after a serious leg injury sidelined him during the 2019 edition of the race.
Updated: Feb. 10, 2020 at 6:30 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Israel Hale of Iron Dog Team No. 77 is attempting to become the first amputee to compete in and finish the Iron Dog Race.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2019 at 5:33 AM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
For the second year in a row, Team No. 10, of Mike Morgan and Chris Olds, have claimed the Iron Dog title, arriving first in Fairbanks on Saturday. They’re the first back-to-back champions since Mark McKenna and Dusty VanMeter in 2013.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2019 at 7:45 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
The Iron Dog isn't easy, and neither is life for the wives and mothers of those out on the trail.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2019 at 2:48 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Defending Iron Dog Champions Team 10, Mike Morgan and Chris Olds, continue their lead into the sixth day of competition.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2019 at 12:23 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Sixteen Pro-Class teams left Nome Thursday morning and will have to navigate the tricky terrain of Alaska's unpredictable West Coast as they head south and east toward Fairbanks.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2019 at 2:59 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Iron Dog teams take the race inside for 'Wrench Day,' where every minute matters.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2019 at 12:41 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow & Beth Verge
The first teams have made it to the turnaround point in Nome in Iron Dog 36.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2019 at 7:05 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
The small communities along the Iron Dog trail help make the race uniquely Alaskan. Some riders even get the chance to return to their hometowns.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2019 at 12:32 PM AKST
|By Kortnie Horazdovsky & Patrick Enslow
Iron Dog Team 10 - of Mike Morgan and Chris Olds - leads at the Kaltag checkpoint as of Monday evening.
Updated: Feb. 17, 2019 at 9:17 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Todd Minnick is home resting after being hurt in a crash on the Iron Dog trail, a friend close to the team says.
Updated: Feb. 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
The 36th edition of Iron Dog - known as "the world's longest, toughest snowmobile race" - begins Sunday at Deshka Landing.
Updated: Feb. 14, 2019 at 5:14 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Larry and Danielle Levine look to become the first father-daughter duo to compete in the Iron Dog pro-class race.
Updated: Jan. 28, 2019 at 10:44 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow & Kortnie Horazdovsky
Tuesday Iron Dog announced a purse of $100,000 for it's 2019 Pro Class race.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2019 at 6:56 PM AKST
|By Hank Davis
Due to ice safety concerns, the Iron Dog start point has been moved to Willow, taking a boon for local businesses away from the Big Lake community.
Updated: Jan. 15, 2019 at 12:44 PM AKST
|By Mary Kate Burgess
Citing potential ice instability on Big Lake, Iron Dog officials announced in a press release on Tuesday that they will move the start of the 2019 race from Big Lake to Deshka Landing.
Updated: Oct. 3, 2018 at 3:06 PM AKDT
|By Mary Kate Burgess
Iron Dog Inc. announces it's selected John Woodbury to be its new executive director.
Updated: Aug. 21, 2018 at 12:06 PM AKDT
|By Patrick Enslow
The Iron Dog Board of Directors voted Tuesday evening to continue ahead with the 2019 Iron Dog Race, despite financial challenges and the loss of senior staff members.
Updated: Aug. 16, 2018 at 9:08 PM AKDT
|By Patrick Enslow
The Iron Dog board announced Thursday the possibility of not having a race in 2019 on top of the resignation Jim Wilke and Skip Boomershine from the Iron Dog Board of Directors.
Updated: Feb. 24, 2018 at 12:14 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Team #10 wins the 2018 Iron Dog. Mike Morgan and Chris Olds crossed the finish line at 12:00 p.m. Saturday.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2018 at 9:27 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
The 2018 Iron Dog is coming to a close, and Patrick Enslow has the latest from Day 6.
Updated: Feb. 23, 2018 at 11:00 AM AKST
|By Kortnie Horazdovsky
The first Iron Dog teams left Nome at 4:00 Friday morning, heading toward Fairbanks.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2018 at 11:07 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
It's Day 5 and Western Alaska weather is not playing nice with this year's race, as teams run into part issues in the garage,
Channel 2's MK Burgess has the latest from Nome.
Updated: Feb. 22, 2018 at 6:04 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Iron Dog announces changes to layovers before teams leave the Nome checkpoint.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2018 at 10:14 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Its day 4 of the Iron Dog, and MK Burgess has the latest from Nome.
Updated: Feb. 21, 2018 at 1:40 PM AKST
|By Kortnie Horazdovsky
Team 10 of Mike Morgan and Chris Olds was the first Iron Dog team to Nome after a day-long weather delay.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2018 at 10:07 PM AKST
|By Mary Kate Burgess
MK Burgess interviews race marshal Nate Perkins and he explains the new schedule for the rest of the race as the 30 hour layover in Unalakleet comes to an end.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2018 at 9:05 PM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Patrick Enslow has updates from Day 3 of the Iron Dog.
Updated: Feb. 20, 2018 at 6:16 AM AKST
|By Leroy Polk & Patrick Enslow
Iron Dog says the goal is to still finish in Fairbanks on Saturday, but race officials will have to make adjustments along the second half of the trail to accomplish that.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2018 at 4:08 PM AKST
Track the Iron Dog racers as they jet across Alaska from Big Lake, to Nome, to Fairbanks.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2018 at 3:47 PM AKST
|By Kortnie Horazdovsky and Patrick Enslow
The Iron Dog race has put all racers -- both in the pro and trail class -- on an eight-hour hold, that could last even longer, if the weather on the Bering Sea coast doesn't let up.
Updated: Feb. 19, 2018 at 11:14 AM AKST
|By Patrick Enslow
Teams 3 and 18 scratched from the 2018 Iron Dog, shortly after Sunday's pro class start in Big Lake.