Triad families are preparing for the incoming snow and so are businesses ... "We have so many and so much salt in sleds. I think people are just very hopeful that we'll get a lot of snowfall ...

The Big Pintenfritz sled run here stretches for nearly seven ... starting point during a nearly two-and-a-half-hour hike in the snow after riding the cable car up part of the way.

The Iditarod has begun and promises to be like none before. Mushers began the world’s most famous sled dog race Monday, but not from the Anchorage area.

Normally, he said, he’d be training on a sled, but it’s been months since a big snowfall ... have been battling the low snow conditions for months, and they say it has impacted where ...