“Always striving to find ways to get the trail recognized, another idea was hatched at one of the many meetings. The Iditarod Trail was a mail trail, so why not have each musher carry mail? An arrangement was made with the U.S. Postal Service to carry cachets, packets of letters, over the Iditarod to Nome. …
Technology used during the race has certainly changed over time! Keep checking back a we add more artifacts! Digital’s DECtalk Hotline was used from the mid 70’s through the mid 80’s. Race fans could dial the DECtalk hotline, enter a one-digit number, and listen to a prerecorded message: Race Summary, Checkpoint Summary, Musher Summary or …
