Heading into the old mining district on the way to the Iditarod checkpoint the conditions ... Nordman said he visited the Yukon River community of Shageluk a few weeks ago and winter trail ...

Despite little snow in some parts of the state, Mark Nordman says conditions along much of the Iditarod trail are actually ...

An Iditarod spokesperson did not immediately respond ... The route takes mushers over two mountain ranges, along the frozen Yukon River and the Bering Sea ice before ending in the Gold Rush ...

“Right now, there’s only a foot of ice on the Kuskokwim River,” Akiak Native Community Chief Mike Williams Sr., an Iditarod veteran, said on Jan. 8. By December, ice on the Kuskokwim River ...

The race alternates between a northern and southern route from year to year, splitting off in the historic Iditarod Mining District and sending mushers down different stretches of the Yukon River ...