Thousands of runners pound the pavement from Skagway during annual Klondike Road Relay

Thousands of runners pound the pavement from Skagway during annual Klondike Road Relay

175 kilometre relay race draws participants from across North America for weekend event.

Haines runners among those in Klondike Relay

Runners congregated in Skagway on Friday to participate in the 43rd Klondike Road Relay. The Skagway ferry terminal reopened the day before the race, after teams had already shifted their plans around. The running race starts in Skagway, Alaska, and ends over 100 miles away in Whitehorse, Yukon. This year, 211 teams took part.  One […]

Petersburg's new Klondike Road Relay runners are "kind of a big dill"

Last weekend, a nine-person team from Petersburg - all of them Medical Center employees or relatives of employees - ran the 175-kilometer Klondike Road Relay from Skagway, Alaska, into Whitehorse, Yukon. And did it dressed, more or less, as pickles. The team called itself "The Big Dills," and "oh my gosh, we had so much fun," said team captain Megan Litster. The Klondike Road...