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Libby Littles
Libby Here! What is the average age of the dogs? Are they retired after a certain age? These are questions that a lot of you have asked. Well, students, do you think I’m going to tell you my age? Some of us don’t like to tell those details, (hee hee!) A musher doesn’t always tell …
Libby Here! When you are learning about Iditarod, have you heard the word COMMS? COMMS is a word that stand for Race Communications. Iditarod sends COMMS volunteers to each checkpoint. The COMMS volunteers do lots of jobs but an important job they do is race communications. COMMS volunteers send the name of the musher, the …
Libby Here! The other day I got an email from a classroom in Texas. They wondered how dogs can keep warm while running in Iditarod. My human likes to dress me up. I have lots of coats and jackets. The coats just make me look so much cuter! Don’t you agree? Try this. Stand up. …
Libby Here! Look who sent me an email to say hello! Our good friend and author, Marianne Schlegelmilch! She’s got some great advice, boys and girls, it’s time to get reading because Iditarod is right around the ‘trail’. (No matter what time of year it is, the mushers are training and getting ready!) Check out …
Hello Boys and Girls! During a race, not every dog runs from Anchorage to Nome. Some dogs return from the trail. They are called ‘dropped’ dogs. Dropped dogs are dogs that for one reason or another, are left in the checkpoint by the musher. When the dogs are left at a checkpoint, the dogs are …
Libby here! Hello Boys and Girls, I hope you have had time to go to the musher listing page and see all of the mushers who have signed up for this year’s Iditarod. If not, go to the link that you will find after my name, and you can visit that part of the website. …
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 …
Hello Boys and Girls! Libby here! Did you know that there is a ‘little’ Iditarod? (You know how I love to tell you about little things! Did you notice my last name is Littles?) Ok, so maybe ‘little’ isn’t the right word. How about shorter? Well, there is a shorter Iditarod and this race is …
Libby Here! I wasn’t around 40 years ago. Were you? The first Iditarod race was held more than 40 years ago. Reaching Nome wasn’t easy back then because the trail was not marked very clearly. Mushers had to help clear the trail as they traveled. They also had to hunt for food. Today, trail breakers …
Libby Here! A musher is someone who drives a dog sled. To drive a sled, a musher needs to have leaders on the team. Leaders are the dogs who are in front of the team. They are the dogs that listen to the musher, are trained to know what to do, and are able to …