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It was a bright sunny fleece and light jacket sort of day in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan when I had the good fortune of walking through the dog yard at Nature’s Kennel. Ed and Tasha Stielstra host an annual Musher Symposium and Teacher’s Conference late in September and this was the Sunday morning …
It was back to the ‘classroom’ for teachers who attended Iditarod educational conferences on September 28 in Michigan and North Carolina. Michigan: Summary of Events at the Midwest Mushing Symposium and Teacher’s Conference As regular as the leaves change color and days shorten in fall, mushers and teachers gather in Curtis, Michigan for the …
Click here to learn about the Iditarod Workshop for teachers held in early fall in North Carolina. Learn from Iditarod Teachers on the Trail™ , a musher, and an Iditarod veterinarian. Register by September 16, 2013. See you there!
It was a pleasant day with more clouds than sun as volunteers, mushers, and race fans gathered on the front lawn of Iditarod Headquarters to picnic and reminisce about the past race. At the same time in a tent just to the left of Balto’s statue, mushers were signing up, creating the first chapter of …
[wpvideo KivsaNI9] My year as 2013 Teacher on the Trail™ is coming to a close and I have yet to wrap my brain around the fact that it actually happened. I can’t finish this adventure without a few thank yous. Thank you Andrea Aufder Heyde (Finney) for having the tenacity to pursue bringing the Iditarod …
Jennifer Reiter has been selected as the Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™ for the 2014 Iditarod. Jen Reiter is a third grade teacher at Gilman School, an independent boys’ school in Baltimore, Maryland. She began her teaching career in 1993 in public schools and moved to the independent schools in 2000. She holds an undergraduate …
“It was always Joe Redington’s hope that the media would recognize and report on all the mushers in the back of the pack. Joe felt that each musher who entered the race was just as important as the fastest. Each musher and his dogs were undertaking a feat that required courage, strength, endurance, ingenuity, brotherly …
Doors opened for the Finisher’s Banquet of Iditarod XLI at 1500, (actually now that the race is over we can go back to civilian time 3:00 pm). Folks filed in, claimed what they hoped would be a good seat then anticipated an outstanding dinner served by the Millennium of Anchorage. Mushers, fans, family and friends …
As of 17:30 on March 16th, Cindy Gallea is a veteran of ten Iditarod Races. She’s sat out the last two years but found that she missed the time with her dogs on a trail characterized by its solitude and beauty. Even though she didn’t get her dogs out for as many training miles as …
Mikhail Telpin and his Chukchi dogs spent a little extra time under the burled arch this morning. Telpin said that he’d heard from Quest mushers that Iditarod was easier. After signing in and completing Iditarod 41, Telpin is a veteran of both races. Mikhail said that Iditarod was equally as tough if not tougher than …
