...seasoned veterans. Sled positioning trackers show 2004 Iditarod winner Mitch Seavey 6 miles ahead of four-time champion Jeff King late Monday afternoon as they headed to the checkpoint at Elim, 123 miles from the finish line in Nome. Trackers show...
...things like the numbing sleep deprivation along the trail.In the past decade, other Iditarod winners have included Jeff King, who was 50 when he won; John Baker, who was 48; and Norwegian Robert Sorlie, who was 47.The elder Seavey, who...
...shoulder," Seavey said after crossing the finish line. Also trailing by a dozen or so miles was four-time champion Jeff King, who was followed by a cluster of contenders, including Seavey's son, Dallas. Last year at age 25, he became the...
...hours and seven minutes - nearly 20 minutes before the second place musher Ray Redington. Four-time Iditarod winner Jeff King finished third. Seavey entered the race with a lax attitude, he said. The Sterling resident simply was "cruising around...
...up for the roughly 200-mile race and 11 had arrived to race the shorter, roughly 100-mile course. Big names like Jeff King, Ken Anderson, Paul Gebhardt and Mitch Seavey are on the roster. Pam May, a veterinarian who was examining dogs Friday...
...cause for celebration. On the Kenai, it was cause for groans: "Oh, no! Not another humpy!" Not everyone groaned. Jeff King is a humpy booster, and proud of it. "I fish for 'em," says this Kenai River guide. "My customers have a lot of...
After 200 miles - and more than 22 hours - of racing, Cim Smyth and Jeff King were separated by just seven minutes at the end of the Tustumena 200 sled dog race Sunday afternoon. Smyth and King, both veteran...
...by veteran musher Cim Smyth, a Big Lake musher who had won the race twice before. He narrowly edged out Denali's Jeff King, a three-time champ, who finished at 4:03 that afternoon. Chatanika's Dan Kaduce and Kasilof's Colleen Robertia...
...Also into the checkpoint were defending champion John Baker of Kotzebue, Aaron Burmeister of Nome, four-time champion Jeff King of Denali Park and DeeDee Jonrowe of Willow. The Yukon River portion of the nearly 1,000-mile Iditarod is dreaded...
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