dog mushing

Justin Olnes’ team isn't leading the pack this year, but the musher says he’s on a mission to showcase all the talent and potential that was previously hidden away in Alaska’s shelters.

Mushers at the Galena checkpoint are visibly weary, but looking forward to pushing through to Nome on harder snowpack.

Many mushers opted to take their required 24-hour stop at the checkpoint and said they’re hoping for thicker snow coverage ahead.

A last-minute plan to change the route went off without a hitch despite significant changes to the original trail.

The last two mushers finished the race in Tok last night. Joey Sabin got to the finish at 8:39 p.m. Friday, and Keaton Loebrich was the Red Lantern at 10:34 p.m. for a total of six days, 11 hours and 34 minutes.The 80-mile, 200-mile and other 550-mile racers enjoyed the finisher's award banquet in Fairbanks, celebrating the mushers, the volunteers and the sport of mushing.

Jeff Deeter is the winner of the 2025 Alaska Yukon Quest 550-mile race, and four more mushers have finished the race in Tok.He crossed the finish line at 2:49 p.m. yesterday. It took him five days, three hours and 49 minutes to complete the trail.

The six remaining Yukon Quest 550-mile competitors stopped in Eagle for rest after a journey over chunky ice and past sheer cliffs.

It looks like the Yukon Quest may be won as early as Thursday afternoon, as Jeff Deeter is keeping up an average 7-mile-per-hour pace.

Mushers will rest at the town’s old schoolhouse after running one of the most grueling stretches of the trail.

27 Yukon Quest teams left Fairbanks yesterday. The leaders have made their way into the third checkpoint of the 550-mile race, but their handlers are stalled on the Steese Highway as an avalanche closed the road Saturday.