Lance Woods of Dent will be traveling the Iditarod trail for the fourth time in his life, but this journey has a bit of a twist. He will only be using gear made in 1973 or earlier.
The “3 Old Guys” completed the trek Wednesday evening, April 12, more than five weeks and 5,000 miles after leaving Grand Rapids, Minnesota, on March 6.
On their attempted trip from Minnesota to Moscow, they ran Moto-Ski snowmobiles, a now-defunct brand manufactured in Quebec that ceased production in 1985.
Becky Sletto of Alexandria, Minnesota, lost 6 units of blood after severing her femoral vein. A bystander, who happened to be a nurse, is credited for saving her life.
Paul Dick, Rob Hallstrom and Rex Hibbert snowmobiled from Grand Rapids, Minn., to Churchill, Manitoba, in 2019. Now, they're about to launch a 4,000-mile trek from Grand Rapids to Fairbanks, Alaska.
