Ben Matheson
Web ProducerBen Matheson has worked as a reporter for KYUK in Bethel and KNOM in Nome.
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Three past champions will race in the 44th running of the Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race starting Jan. 27. The race runs from Bethel up the frozen Kuskokwim River to Aniak and back, bringing together 21 top mushers from the Kuskokwim and from across Alaska.
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Kwethluk musher Raymond Alexie has won his first Bogus Creek 150 Sled Dog Race. He arrived in Bethel shortly after 7:00 a.m. on Jan. 15 with a team of 10 dogs and was met by a crowd of cheering supporters.
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Pete Kaiser was the first musher to reach the halfway point of the 2023 Bogus Creek 150 Sled Dog Race.
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Pete Kaiser led the pack in a return to the traditional K300 route up to Aniak and back.
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The Kuskokwim 300 race marshals issued a 20-minute penalty to Fr. Alexander Larson after he left the marked trail near Kalskag on Jan. 30 and didn’t stop at the inbound checkpoint. Mushers are required to stop and sign in at every checkpoint.
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Bethel musher Pete Kaiser won his sixth Kuskokwim 300 title on Sunday, Jan. 30. He arrived at the Bethel finish line shortly before 8 a.m. A crowd of friends and family gathered at the finish line to celebrate.
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17 sled dog teams rocketed out of Bethel on an icy trail in the 2022 Akiak Dash Sled Dog Race. Relive the wildest one minute in sled dog racing with drone footage from the mass start on the Kuskokwim River.
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Jackie Larson made it two in row and repeated as champion in the 2022 Akiak Dash Sled Dog Race on Saturday, Jan. 29 in Bethel. It was a tight finish. He arrived at 6:37 p.m., just one minute ahead of Raymond Alexie of Kwethluk.
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Seventeen mushers will race the 2022 Akiak Dash on Saturday, Jan. 29. The race is a roughly 65-mile route from Bethel to Akiak and back. Defending champion Jackie Larson of Napaskiak will seek a second straight title among a competitive field of Kuskokwim mushers.
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The 2022 K300 race weekend is here. Learn about the schedule of events for the 43rd running of the Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race.