This year, the Iditarod Insider crew is travelling with a video camera and a satellite uplink setup and taking lots of footage on the trail and at checkpoints. As someone who has traveled the trail by bush plane and been on the ground, it is awesome out there.
I just watched one of these videos for the first time. They post links on the Iditarod site, one place being on the Current Standings page below. You click and wala... you are in the interior of Alaska for the $33.95 subscription that also gets you the GPS tracker. I'm impressed. The "streaming video scrapper" I have didn't seem to grab the audio content (you'll see my scrape below) but when you view it from the site you get nice clear audio as well.
This video is race leader Nic Pettit pulling in to Rainey Pass this morning. Nic is a crazy Frenchman and great friend of Trent's. Notice the side saddle style as he meets the checkpoint team and you'll hear him yucking it up. When you meet this guy, you think he could be a trapper from 150 years ago. I'm not flying around the race this year with a bush pilot, so this is the next best thing. Tim
