The Old Guys- Paul Dick, Rob Hallstrom and Rex Hibbertwill follow the Iron Dog route from Big Lake to Nome.
Three Old Iron Dogs
You may not be able to teach an old dog a new trick, but you can get Three Old Guys to race the Iron Dog. Paul Dick, Rex Hibbert and Rob Hallstrom already mostly trans-navigated the continent in an adventure they billed as“ Three Old Guys Ride Across North America.”
Now they’ re heading back to Alaska— older and questionably wiser— to ride in the Ambassador Class of the Iron Dog, a cross-country event in Alaska.
As Ambassadors, the men will travel ahead of the racers, spending extra time in the villages and communities along the trail. Other Ambassadors will join them, including Minnesota Arctic Cat dealer Tom Rowland and two Alaskans: past Iron Dog racers Brad Helwig and Eric Quam, who have won the event twice.
The Iron Dog route covers 2,319 miles of incredibly remote, rugged and ungroomed terrain from Big Lake to Nome to Fairbanks. The Ambassadors will run half of the route, from Big Lake to Nome.
It will be a familiar experience for Hibbert and Dick, who both raced the full event in 1994 and finished in third place overall.
This also allows the men to complete their original mission to fully cross the continent. Their first leg, in 2023, took them from Grand Rapids, Minnesota, to Fairbanks, Alaska. Their second leg, in 2025, started in Grand Rapids and ended in Newfoundland. Each journey was approximately 4,000 miles. The Iron Dog event will link them to the continent’ s western coast.
The men are sponsored, among others, by Arctic Cat, Klim and their wives.
The race begins on February 12. 8 / FEBRUARY 2026 / SNOWGOER. COM