ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The world’s most famous sled dog race is longer this year than ever before.
Thanks to a lack of snow, this year’s edition of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race needed a new route across the Alaska wilderness. The course change adds more than 100 miles, so teams of dogs will have to pull their mushers over 1,100 miles to the finish line.
The number of mushers participating this year is down from previous years, and tied with 2023 as an all-time low. This year is the fourth time the starting line has moved to Fairbanks due to barren ground near Anchorage or elsewhere on the trail….