As King put it: “This is a local event, regional event, that gets worldwide exposure. The Iditarod treats it as a slow-motion crisis, handling problems as they come, trying to anticipate the future. The question the Iditarod is starting to ask, as other races have already done, is whether it will need to move. And is it still the Iditarod if it is not on the historic Iditarod trail? “My gut feeling is, no, you don’t move it,” said the musher Brent Sass, an Iditarod veteran who recently won his second Yukon Quest.

Source: New York Times March 01, 2019 17:00 UTC