Good Morning friends
The Iditarod is the world's longest and toughest sled dog
race, across the state of Alaska from Anchorage on the south-central coast to
Nome on the Bering Sea just south of the Arctic Circle.
It commemorates a 650-mile mid-winter emergency run to take
serum from Nenana to Nome during the 1925 diphtheria epidemic.
The race, which began in 1973, follows an old frozen-river
mail route and is named for a deserted mining town along the way.
About 70 teams compete each year, and the winner is
acclaimed the world's best long-distance dog musher.
Each musher, with a team of anywhere from 8 to 18 dogs, can
expect to face 30-foot snowdrifts and winds of up to 60 miles an hour.
The 1992 winner, Martin Buser, set a record time of 10 days,
19 hours, and 17 minutes. Buser set a new record of 8 days, 22 hours, and 46
minutes when he took his fourth win in 2002.
Several events are clustered around the running of the race.
On the beginning weekend of the race (4th of March 2017) feature
softball, golf on ice, fireworks, and snow sculptures. At Nome, the Bering Sea
Ice Golf Classic, a six-hole golf tournament, is played on the frozen Bering
Sea during the second week of the race.
Wishing you a nice day.
Kam
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