As hundreds of dogs barked and thousands of fans lined up for the ceremonial start of the Iditarod XXXVIII, mushers and their teams of dogs left for an eleven mile run to Anchorage. Seventy one mushers entered the race this year each with twelve to sixteen dogs on their team. The race consists of over [...]
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Iditarod Race Begins
March 7th, 2010 
Tracy Matlack 
Posted in Sports, Tracy Matlack 
Tags: Alaska, Anchorage, Diphtheria, dog sleds, gold mining, gold strike, Iditarod, Last Great Race on Earth, mushers, National Historic Trail, Nome, winter olympics 
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