Mushers remember Susan Butcher's grit
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Mushers' tales of toughness, of outlasting furious snowstorms, of guiding dog teams down serpentine mountain switchbacks and over rivers of cracking ice are the meat and potatoes of Iditarod lore.
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Bitter cold that our New England winters can be, we long ago adopted a provincial antidote for the numbing of toes and the shortage of breath: metal grinding against ice and hard rubber hitting against wood.
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OSWEGO, N.Y. - While the northern Plains and Northeast shiver in dangerously cold temperatures, the folks in upstate New York are keeping warm shoveling snow - lots of snow.
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For years, geologists and devoted amateurs have lobbied for a regional trail dedicated to ice-age floods. At last, their efforts may pay off.
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TAKOTNA, Alaska -- Lance Mackey is chasing his dream. The other mushers are chasing him at the halfway point of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
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By Pete Zimowsky, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Feb. 21--Yip. Yip. Yip. Howl. It's nice to be serenaded to sleep by coyotes.
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By Mark Taylor  mark.taylor@roanoke.com 981-3395  A few months ago a friend who lives in Montana dangled a tempting carrot in front of me.  He invited me to join him in September on a backcountry bow hunt for elk in Western Montana.
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BEAVER CREEK - Ski racing requires a rare blend of fearlessness, stellar reactions and bionic will - the latter being vital to longevity.
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Plenty of snow has been shoveled since Sports Illustrated called the 1994 US Alpine ski team the "brigade of lead-footed snowplowers" just before the Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway. Writer E.M. Swift had no way of knowing that the team would win four Alpine medals in those Games, but he was basing his none-too-inaccurate assessment of US ...
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Former Army sergeant Kelly Holmes tonight proved her fighting qualities as she battled her way to gold medal glory. Dogged by illness and injury throughout her career, the
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By Matt Branaugh, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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Men have been responding with enthusiasm to this winterâs influx of fur.
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BEAVER CREEK, Colo. - The greatest winter athlete America doesn&#39;t know almost had to stifle a laugh. &quot;Is everybody all right?
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By Mike Peters, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 23--From the mud and the slop and the deep snow and cold river, a minor hero emerged Thursday, cradling a newborn calf, carrying it back to its mother.
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Training with her dog high in the Sierras, then dodging herds of sheep on runs through the hills of Crete in the days before the Olympics, Deena Kastor kept believing she could earn a medal in the marathon.
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Journalism school taught Norway&#39;s Gunn-Rita Dahle how to write a variety of stories. When she&#39;s on her mountain bike, the news always seems to be the same.
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LYNDHURST, England, Sept. 12 -- Jake, an arthritic Labrador retriever, slept beneath an ancient oak tree in a warm September breeze. Ponies roamed untethered, children kicked pine cones along gravel forest paths, and Edith Jones stood outside her camper wondering how such a tranquil spot had become,...