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 final ...

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 ...

Speaking to Iditarod Insider during a rest in Koyuk ... a few minutes before Holmes arrived to White Mountain. Three mushers left the race Wednesday, though for different reasons.

Speaking to Iditarod Insider during a rest in Koyuk ... a few minutes before Holmes arrived to White Mountain. Three mushers left the race Wednesday, though for different reasons.

“I think the combination of those things, having the discipline to let the race go away from me early on,” Holmes told an interviewer from Iditarod Insider in White Mountain on Thursday.

The next musher expected to come in is veteran Nic Petit, a former Rookie of the Year who left White Mountain at 3:28 a.m. Saturday. Petit has racked up six top-10s in 13 starts in his Iditarod ...

Iditarod musher Jessie Holmes and his 11-dog ... and continued to hold onto the lead early Thursday on the way to White Mountain. White Mountain is the second to last checkpoint and all mushers ...

but Holmes outpaced and out-rested them to widen a lead that became unsurpassable by White Mountain, where all mushers and teams are required to take an eight-hour rest. Iditarod eighth-place ...

Matt Hall and Jessie Holmes led the Iditarod field on Wednesday ... From there, only two checkpoints remain – White Mountain and Safety – before the final push to Nome.

The Iditarod went Hollywood in its 53rd year, and it made for a competition all the more memorable. The Great American Dog Sled Race proved rather time-consuming, with a lack of snow forcing ...

"I think the combination of those things, having the discipline to let the race go away from me early on," Holmes told an interviewer from Iditarod Insider in White Mountain on Thursday.