Urtha Lenhar: Personal Iditarod Reflections from someone who was there on day one

🐾 NEW EPISODE — The Explorer with Jonathan Hayes The third and final installment of our Iditarod EDU Speaker Series is here — and it's a big one. Urtha Lenhar was there on day one of the Iditarod. He went on to finish the race himself, spent forty years as a teacher (twenty of them in Nome, Alaska), and now leads the nonprofit Seppala House Project — restoring Leonhard Seppala's historic home into a museum. This talk covers the birth of the Iditarod, what it took to run it, the fight to preserve a piece of mushing history, and everything in between. This one's personal — I led the carpentry team on that Seppala House restoration myself, and you can hear it in how we talk about it. Catch up on the whole series: my talk on the Centennial Seppala Expedition, Kat Langlais on what it really takes to win the Can-Am Crown, and now Urtha closing it out. 🎧 Listen now — link in bio 🌐 MushMaine.com 📱 Follow us: Mush Maine ✉️ [email protected] Share this with someone who loves this history as much as we do. #Iditarod #SeppalaHouse #MushMaine #TheExplorerPodcast