Arctic Man Is Winter's Last and Craziest Party

To welcome spring and say goodbye to winter, we decided to head north in search of sunshine, the smell of alcohol-enriched gasoline in the air, and crazy people going really fast on skis tied to snowmobiles. We found it all at Arctic Man, Alaska's version of spring break in Daytona Beach. The week-long wild and crazy party high in the mountains started 25 years ago, based around the wacky ...

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Jamaican Musher Wrapping Up Iditarod Run With Jimmy Buffett's Help

While one mantastic musher has already sealed his fourth consecutive Iditarod victory, another far more unlikely sled dog jockey is still on his way to Nome, and Jimmy Buffett, along with the entire nation of Jamaica, is cheering him on. No, you haven't seen this Disney movie before, but that doesn't mean Cuba Gooding Jr.'s agent hasn't already called about the possibility. We first ran into ...

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3-Time Iditarod Champ Still Leads the Way Without Pot

As this story went live, a pretty mantastic dude named Lance Mackey and a dozen of his sled dogs were working their way across the frozen wilderness of Alaska's Seward Peninsula toward the finish line of the Iditarod, easily one of the toughest races on earth. Mackey is in the lead again, a position the three-time champ has become used to, but this year there's something missing for Lance, ...

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