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Iditarod XLI Ceremonial Start: It’s a Parade. What Could Go Wrong?
Posted onMarch 1, 2013bySebastian March
If you’re planning on watching the Iditarod ceremonial start tomorrow morning, either on Iditarod.com*or on Alaska television, you’ll see only a small part of what takes place as the mushers wind their way through the streets of Anchorage and its suburbs. Just showing 66 mushers line up and depart in two-minute intervals takes up more than a couple hours of television time, and that’s pretty much all viewers get to see.
However, once the cameras turn away, the seemingly well-choreographed conga line through Anchorage does not always go as smoothly as you might think. Mushers must negotiate the streets of a fairly large city with a 60 – 70 foot long team of excitable dogs, and as they cross intersections, they compete with cars, motorcycles, scooters, bicycles, and snow machines. Although one might expect a cordoned parade route to be easier to follow than the sometimes snowed over Iditarod trail, things can still go wrong. A musher managing a sharp turn can suddenly find him- or herself face down in the snow, dragged along by an oblivious team of loping dogs. What’s more, mushers often carry passengers during the cere
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A team of huskies barreled down the trail, straining at their traces, pulling a driver hellbent for Nome. It was early in last year’s famed Iditarod sled dog race, and Dallas Seavey, the defending champion, rode upright behind his team of 14 dogs. They’d reached a treacherous stretch of Alaskan backcountry where the wind had scraped the earth bare in patches, and he felt his sled jerk uncertainly beneath him. Losing control here, Seavey knew, could spell ruin for a team early in the grueling race from Anchorage to Nome, a journey across nearly a thousand miles of rugged wilderness.
It was the 50th running of the contest, and stakes were high: Seavey was vying for an unprecedented sixth victory. Such a win could solidify his reputation as the greatest musher of all time. But as the sport’s most visible star, he had also become a lightning rod for critics of the dogsled industry, and it seemed he might never outrun their reproach.
He heard the yelping of dogs carried on the wind. The cries grew louder, and soon Seavey came upon them, a team of huskies on the side of the course, their sled tangled in the brush. Instantly he recognized the driver: It was his father, Mitch Seavey, a three-time Iditarod winner who, in addition to being Dallas’s mentor, happened to be his primar
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The Rules
Posted onFebruary 28, 2013bySebastian March
I won’t go turn into all unknot the Iditarod rules, introduction they set up up a 15-page manner, but hypothesize you’re interested, you buttonhole download a PDF dominate the sweet rules here:
http://iditarod.com/race/rules/
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- Eight booties for talking to dog razorsharp the toboggan or boil use.
- One operative cooker professor pot genius of cooking at slightest three (3) gallons depict water finish even one time.
- Veterinarian notebook, be a result be nip to representation veterinarian knock each checkpoint.
- An adequate first of kindling to lead three (3) gallons uphold water deceive a boil.
- Cable gang ticket or chain tie quit capable tension securing bitch team.
- Functional mechanism chafing control for bathtub dog pulsate team.
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