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Fifteen mushers from along the lower Kuskokwim and as far upriver as Crooked Creek braved subzero temperatures over the weekend to compete for a total race purse of $25,000 in the final K300-sponsored race of the season.

Bethel’s Pete Kaiser has won his 9th Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race. His second-half strategy stood up to a formidable challenge from some newer teams.

Mushers Riley Dyche and Pete Kaiser left the Kalskag inbound checkpoint within three minutes of each other, despite employing very different race and rest strategies.

Mike Williams Jr. arrived with 10 dogs on the line at 5:06 a.m. He told race volunteers he planned to spend his remaining four hours of required rest time in Aniak before pushing through back down to Kalskag and Tuluksak.

Eleven hours into the 2025 Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race, most mushers are taking their first rest in Kalskag, around a third of the way through the race. Mushers are keeping a relatively quick pace and enjoying the smooth trail – with one exception.

Second-time Kuskokwim 300 musher Riley Dyche was the first to pass the outbound Tuluksak checkpoint in the 2025 running of the race.

All 17 teams competing in this year's Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race are on the trail, after a smooth and sunny start.

The Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race has announced that it will start at 1 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 7. That’s seven hours earlier than its previously-scheduled start time of 8 p.m.

Despite a rough start to the 2025 mushing season and the postponement of every K300-sponsored race thus far, Jan. 16 proved to be a great day to run dogs on the Kuskokwim River for the Holiday Classic sled dog race.

Several dog mushers who built their skills in the Kuskowkim 300 are competing in the 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which began on March 7. Coffee at…