Fast Into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail

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By Debbie Clark Moderow ’77

Published April 8, 2016

As a 47-year-old mother of two, Debbie Clarke Moderow ’77 was not your average Iditarod musher. Her memoir, Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail, tells the story of her two attempts to complete the famous sled-dog race, showing us what can happen when someone enters the place between daring and doubt — and soldiers on.

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