From the Web - Koyuk, Alaska
Lance first into Koyuk by minutes!: As Lance Mackey and Jeff King approached (and reached) the native village of Koyuk this morning he was able to hold his lead. According to GPS tracking on the Iditarod website, its been a close race since leaving Shaktoolik about half ... Snowmobile tour fills in the Western Alaska permafrost map: As Chris Larsen of the University of Alaska Fairbank’s Geophysical Institute reported last October (www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF18/1878.html), the glacier had surged to within 1000 feet of the river, which flows from the Yukon ...