Thanks to a lack of snow, this year’s edition of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race needed a new route across the Alaska wilderness. The course change adds more than 100 mile.

The mushers will bring their Badger State connections to Alaska for the famous sled dog race that kicks off on March 3.

January, and I was zooming toward an ice fjord in Greenland, clocking at least 30 miles per hour on a snowmobile. It was, maybe, five degrees out. Everything around me was frozen, and even though it was close to 11 a.