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Latest Race Resources Posts

Photo: Big Mitts on A Handle Bar of the Snowmobile

Original Posting Date:  March 11, 2011

Photo: A Pedestrian Sign in McGrath

Original Posting Date:  Mar 12, 2011

A Picture from Restart Day! Booties on the Feet!

Location:  Willow, Alaska March 7, 2010 Getting booties on paws can be so relaxing!

Photo – School Bus in McGrath

Bus in McGrath Original Posting Date:  Mar 9, 2011

Photo: A Picture = A Story

What story can you write to go with this picture from a Jon Van Zyle artwork?                   Original Posting Date:  Mar 7, 2011

Photo: Yum! Lunch on ReStart Day

What is for lunch before the big race? A wonderful stew of fish, rice, and broth! Yum! What sled dog wouldn’t love this yummy meal?   I think I see salmon, don’t you?   Original Posting Date:  Mar 14, 2010

Photo: Road Closes for Mushers and Dogs

Original Posting Date:  Mar 13, 2011

Photo: What Does Yours Say?

This license plate was spotted at the Iditarod Restart.  If you were a musher, what license plate would you design for yourself? What other identification letters or numbers would help explain this sport?  What letters or numbers would help explain your favorite sport or your hobby? Design your own license plate.    Original Posting Date: …

Zoom Lens – Unalakleet Happenings

On the day Iditarod crowned its youngest champion ever, plenty of other things were going on three hundred miles away in the community of Unalakleet. There was a pie social at the Covenant Church. It was as much fun eating the pie as it was listening to people decide on what kind of pie to …

Zoom Lens – Baker follows Zirkle into McGrath

Eight hours after the PenAir Spirit of Alaska award was presented, thirty more teams have made their way into the checkpoint of McGrath. John Baker followed Aliy Zirkle by about half an hour. Baker, Zirkle and nearly the entire front half of the field continued right on to Takotna, 18 miles up the trail. It’s …