As I sit here at my desk, I can still see piles of snow in my back yard and around my driveway. But in Alaska, they have had so little snow that they actually had to move the race to a new course, pictured here. Up-to-the-minute results this morning are as follows: Continue reading Iditarod Update: 3/10/15 @ 9:40 AM, Alaska Time / New Map due to Lack of Snow
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Ready? Set…Go!
From the Iditarod Trail Committee’s Facebook page. These dogs are ready to go!
Iditarod 2015 starts this weekend!
To me, it’s a chance to see beautiful dogs compete at the uppermost level under extreme circumstances. Oh, yeah, and the scenery’s pretty terrific, too!
Here’s how the official Iditarod website describes this epic event:
“The Last Great Race on Earth®”
You can’t compare it to any other competitive event in the world! A race covering 1000 miles of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer. She throws jagged mountain ranges, frozen river, dense forest, desolate tundra and miles of windswept coast at the mushers and their dog teams. Add to that temperatures far below zero, winds that can cause a complete loss of visibility, the hazards of overflow, long hours of darkness and treacherous climbs and side hills, and you have the Iditarod. A race extraordinaire, a race only possible in Alaska.
From Anchorage, in south central Alaska, to Nome on the western Bering Sea coast.
Continue reading Iditarod 2015 starts this weekend!