Libby here!

Do you know what a bib is?  Sure you do, it is something you put on little humans so the food they eat doesn’t dribble on their shirt.  Did you ever wear a bib?

But in the mushing world, a bib is something different.

A bib is what a musher wears to show the musher’s starting order.

Mushers start a race according to their bib numbers.  The lowest number stars first.  The highest number starts last.

Bib 18 – on the sled, waiting for the ‘musher’

In Iditarod, the first musher to start the race is the musher wearing bib number 2.

Bib number 1 is saved for the honorary musher.  An honorary musher is chosen each year.

Just Spinning de”tails”,

Libby