Located on the historic Iditarod Trail, it has a short looping stroll to salmon spawning waters.
Since then, his family has bred five Iditarod racers and 100 champion sled dogs.
It was March the beginning of the Iditarod in Alaska, but a dreary, soggy time in Central Europe.
The big thing I have going on today though is Jill Homer, the Iditarod biker, checked in.
Nistler said the Iditarod was on her bucket list following her husband's death of cancer a year ago.
Iditarod officials could not immediately be reached for further information, but many mushers left dogs behind at Eagle Island.
"I've been in love with the Iditarod for over eight years, " she said.
Participants in the 41st running of the race include six past Iditarod winners, including Seavey and his father, Mitch Seavey.
Before his Tuesday night win, King had been the oldest Iditarod champion, winning his fourth race at age 50 in 2006.
On the first Saturday of March, thousands of Iditarod enthusiasts line Anchorage's historic Fourth Avenue to participate in the celebratory send-off.
While the Iditarod may be known as "The Last Great Race, " there's no sign it's coming to an end anytime soon.
Last year's Iditarod Champion, John Baker, made it to Nome with a record-setting pace -- 8 days, 18 hours and 46 minutes.
The Gold Rush-era town of Nome is the end of the trail where the famous Iditarod "burled arch" forms the finish line.
The top four finishers in the last Iditarod , the renowned 1, 150-mile dog-sled race across Alaska, were all over 50 years old.
The younger Seavey at age 25 last year became the youngest Iditarod winner ever, beating Zirkle to the finish line by one hour.
Dallas Seavey also is among six past winners of the 1, 000-mile Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, held just weeks before the Iditarod.
He is going for a fifth win in the Iditarod, this time taking mostly young dogs and only four veterans from the Quest.
"You got to just run it to the best of your abilities, not what other people are doing, " he said Thursday in an Iditarod.com video.
Dan Seavey co-founded the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1973.
Zirkle, 43, had hoped to be only the third woman to win the race and the first since Susan Butcher won her fourth Iditarod in 1990.
If you're unable to witness this year's race at points along the trail, 2013 promises to deliver yet another compelling Iditarod -- a truly Alaskan experience.
NOME, Alaska (AP) A 53-year-old former champion has won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to become the oldest winner of Alaska's grueling test of endurance.
The price to travel across the diverse Alaskan landscape by bush plane can be expensive during the Iditarod, but the experience is almost always described as unforgettable.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Mushers and their dogs took a leisurely jaunt through Anchorage on Saturday in the ceremonial start of Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
To be a long-term investor, you have to think like a musher in the Iditarod: Hold the handlebars with an iron grip and brace yourself to take ferocious punishment.
The oldies were still stellar performers in a race that ended last year with a top field featuring many finishers in their 20s and 30, noted Iditarod race spokeswoman Erin McLarnon.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) Four-time champion Martin Buser held on to the lead Saturday in Alaska's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, hoping to be only the second musher to ever claim a fifth title in the race's 40-year-history.
There are a number of events in and around Anchorage leading up to the Iditarod start, such as the Mushers' Banquet, various Iditarod educational seminars featuring mushers and race officials, and even a competing annual festival and parade in Anchorage, the Fur Rondy.
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