19 Mushers Register for 2018 Yukon Quest Race on Opening Day
![A dogsled team departs a log cabin at Slaven's Roadhouse. Photo Credit: National Park Service (2013)](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/YukonQuestSlavens-1024x683.jpg)
19 mushers have signed up so far for the 2018 Yukon Quest, the 1000-mile, international sled-dog race through Alaska and the Yukon Territory. Registration opened this weekend.
2017 Kobuk 440 Starts Today
![Racers At The Starting Line of the 2016 Kobuk 440 Photo: Emily Schwing, KNOM.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/image2-2432px.jpg)
Kobuk 440 race coordinator Carmen Daggett says the first teams are expected to cross the finish line in Kotzebue sometime late Sunday or early Monday.