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K300 livestream screenshot via FacebookLarson held onto a narrow lead throughout the race, finishing 5 minutes ahead of Akiak’s Mike Williams Jr. Normally billed as the February 50 Doubles, this year’s race was postponed to March, and then shifted to a single musher race out of concerns over children being exposed to extreme windchills. -
Katie Baldwin BasileLarson clocked the fastest total elapsed time for three consecutive runs from Bethel to Atmuatluak and back: at a little under 6 hours and 48 minutes.
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In 2025, Williams Jr. won the race for the first time in two decades. This year, the Akiak musher and his team have hit their stride, coming off a third-place finish in the Kuskokwim 300 and multiple sprint race victories. -
Pavila and his 10 dogs made the run up to the race’s sole checkpoint in 5 hours and 57 minutes. They arrived at Bogus Creek at 10:57 p.m., 2 minutes ahead of Michael Larson of Kwethluk, who arrived at Bogus Creek at 10:59 p.m. -
Eleven teams took off in a mass start from the Bethel riverfront under blue skies for the run to Bogus Creek and back. This year’s field doesn’t include any rookies, but it does include a handful of longtime race veterans and the race’s winningest musher. -
The mass start of the 2026 Bogus Creek 150 is scheduled to take place in front of the small boat harbor on the Bethel riverfront at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14. -
The Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race Red Lantern award, given to the last-place finisher, is meant to honor perseverance in the sled dog sport. It’s a word fitting for the story of a 17-year old musher’s first-ever 300-mile race. -
At this year's banquet, Bethel's Pete Kaiser was anything but boastful about his new title of winningest Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race musher. In speeches throughout the evening, mushers and officials showed how a little luck and a lot of support have kept the race going strong 47 years and counting. -
Bethel’s sled dog sprint races have been seeing younger and younger mushers on the roster. In some cases, that might have to do with keeping it in the family. -
Bethel’s Pete Kaiser made history as he crossed the finish line of the 47th Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race (K300) on the morning of Jan. 25. This victory, his tenth, makes him the winningest musher in race history, surpassing veteran musher Jeff King’s previous nine-win record. -
The hometown hero has become the winningest musher in the history of the Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race, pulling through the finish line in Bethel at 10:40 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 25. -
Two newcomers and two veterans – one poised to become the winningest K300 musher ever – led the pack late in the evening of Saturday, Jan. 24, headed into the final checkpoint in Tuluksak.
