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Name: Dave Goldman
Age: 50

Residence: Anchorage, Alaska 

Occupation:  I am an anchor reporter for KTVA

Years involved with Iditarod: This will be my 7th

Iditarod role: Anchor and reporter for KTVA covering the Iditarod

Current Location: Ruby, Alaska

Date of Photo: March 13, 2020
Temperature: 25F/Outdoors

What, who or how and when did you first get involved with the Iditarod?

I got involved with the Iditarod because of where I was. You could say right place, right time, but I was the Sport’s Director at KTVA, and obviously that’s a big part of what the station does, and so they said “Dave, you’re going to the Iditarod,” and that’s how it worked, and I said “Okay. I’ve had the privilege to cover Superbowl’s, and Final Fours and World Series, I’ve never covered dogs in snow for a thousand miles, but I guess we’ll see how it happens,” and seven years later, here we are.

What is your Why?..Why are you here today and involved in Iditarod?

I’m here today and involved with the Iditarod because, and I’ll go twofold. The occupational part is that I’m supposed to be doing it for the station, but if I wanted to beg out of it, I probably could, but I see this as one of the great opportunities that somebody could possibly have. It’s just not something that you get to do everyday. When you’re in the 48 there’s certain things you can cover, news or sports events, but there aren’t very many people who can say “Yeah, I got to go to the Iditarod and cover this great race with these terrific people, these stories and everything that goes along with it.”

Tell me about just one of your most memorable Iditarod experiences?

Again, I’ve done it seven years, and sometimes the days come together, but for whatever reason two things stand out. Probably about four or five years we were leaving Koyuk in the morning just as sunrise was coming up, and I was heading back to Anchorage to host for that night, and I looked out and as the sun’s rising I remember only seeing two colors, orange and white, and it’s not often you can say that you see just two colors outside, and I saw that and I thought that was as spectacular a sunset as I’ve ever seen, and I thought “Wow, what a spot to be in right now,” and we were flying to it. If you’re looking for a 1-A and a 1-B, probably last year when we walked around with Hawaiian shirts and crocs outside the Anvik checkpoint for a while, and that seems to have gotten some run. People keep coming up with that one. So there you go, there’s two. You can pick.

What do you know for sure?:

What I know for sure in life is, is that my family is my life.