Original story: WHITE MOUNTAIN — Church bells and a small, enthusiastic crowd welcomed Ryan Redington and his eight dogs to White Mountain Monday afternoon.

Skwentna is the new White Mountain for the 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. In a typical year, the dot on the map near the confluence of the Skwentna and Yentna rivers is one of the first ...

According to the Iditarod, White Mountain search and rescue was notified and Watkins’ husband left from Nome with four Nome residents on a snowmachine and found her.

Iditarod musher Jessie Holmes accepting a prize for his first-place arrival into Unalakleet on Tuesday, March 11, 2025. Musher Jessie Holmes raced out of White Mountain around 5 p.m. Thursday ...

“Nobody really knows out there who I am,” Quince Mountain, the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Iditarod, told NBC News just days before the “last great race” commenced ...

Mar. 13—Jessie Holmes arrived first to the White Mountain checkpoint at 8:39 a.m. Thursday, just as color was starting to creep into the sky over the frozen Fish River. The position puts the ...

Leader Jesse Holmes reached the second-to-last checkpoint, White Mountain, with 11 dogs in harness Thursday morning, where all mushers take a mandatory eight-hour rest.

The leading teams of the Iditarod are approaching the finish line in Nome. Jessie Homes leads the way, having departed White Mountain, with just the Safety checkpoint remaining until the ...

A second eight-hour rest is required at White Mountain (mile 1,057), so each musher’s run-rest-run strategy from here will be interesting to watch.

While the official Iditarod website feels a little dated, there is a wealth of resources available to race watchers who might not live in, oh, Unalakleet or White Mountain.

Jerry Riley, winner of the 1976 Iditarod, was banned for life from the race in 1990 after he dropped a dog in White Mountain without informing veterinarians the animal was injured.