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These photos are from the 2010 Iditarod. Also visit Zuma’s Paw Prints to see the Zoom Lens photos there.
Photos by Art Aldrich Did you know that…. When dogs get to checkpoints, they rest or snooze on beds of straw. Mushers care about their dogs and can often be seen giving the dogs foot massages or putting special ointment on the dog’s feet. Sometimes mushers put jackets on the dogs to keep them …
The brake system of an musher’s sled is important. Although it won’t hold a team in place, it will help to slow a team. This youngster was learning about the brake system. Perhaps someday, he’ll be on the Iditarod Trail as an Iditarod musher.
This is a picture of the 2010 Starting Banner. The flags above the banner represent the countries that have mushers entered in the 2010 Iditarod. If you were to design a starting or finish banner, what would it look like?
Pretty cheeky, right? Putting a picture of myself in this article? But seriously it embodies what I want to say. It shows what it feels like when everything connects. You can tell that I love dogs, in this picture and in every other moment of my life. Dogs are the simple answer to life’s most …
Another picture that tells a story or a story that you could tell. This crack in the ice was from a mountain lake. The ice is about 30 inches thick and the lake is about half a mile across. The crack is roughly eighteen inches deep. It is mid March. This is a lake where …
This is the happy family of Ray Redington, Jr., his wife, Julia, and their children, Ellen and Isaac. The photo was taken about an hour before the restart of the 39th Iditarod. This is one mushing family. Julia raced in the Jr. Iditarod as a teenager. Her father, Steve Flodin, is a veteran of the …
Photo by Nancy Yoshida. Due to strong winds, Martha updated the website while she waited for her flight out to Yentna Station to observe the Jr. Iditarod Mushers. Original Posting Date: Feb.26, 2011