It began nearly a century and a half ago in front of a handful of people curious about the way an oddly shaped inflated sphere bounced on a desolate Massachusetts field.
Janice Tanaka Tower ’84 and her brother, Matt Tanaka ’81, bike over the Alaska Range, across the subarctic interior, down the mighty frozen Yukon, and on to the Bering Sea during the 2025 Iditarod…