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Sanka W. Dog
With this being the second full day of the race, dogs lined out behind the Millennium Hotel were dropped at Rainy Pass. The dogs had window seats with the Iditarod Air Force for the flight in. Sled dogs take to flying almost as naturally as pulling a sled. They relax, take a little nap and …
Sunday March 3rd and one might think all the action is taking place on Willow Lake in preparation for the restart at 14:00. True, there’s been plenty going on there since well before sunrise but there’s plenty of action in every checkpoint on this side of the Alaska Range. There are a lot of man/woman …
The evening before the ceremonial start, snow moved in. Not the kind that fell from the sky or the ground blizzard type. This snow was trucked in. While it was still warm and sunny at 15:00 in the afternoon on Friday, the streets were blocked off in preparation for creating the trail through the streets …
Lift, weight, thrust and drag are the four physical forces that make flight possible. Which of these physical forces can be applied to a dog sled as it glides along the trail? Teacher on the Trail™, Linda Fenton, posed that exact question to her third grade students while learning about and experimenting with the 4 …
Half hour before the sun rose, forty teachers attending the 2013 Iditarod Winter Educator’s Conference climbed onto a bus with all of the excitement of fourth graders. Iditarod field trip day is a not to be missed experience. After heading from Anchorage to Wasilla, the first stop was at Iditarod Headquarters for vet check. No, …
Junior Mushers were congratulated by veteran Iditarod contestants Kelly Griffin and Newton Marshall. Griffin told the teens the hardest part of the race is getting to the starting line and everyone who gets to the starting line is a winner. Marshall said that he was proud to be doing something few Jamaicans have the opportunity …
Seventy-five miles after leaving Yentna Station, the Junior Iditarod mushers dropped down onto Willow Lake. Half a mile remained to the finish line on the far shore. Ion Earth GPS Tracker had shown the three leaders close to each other for a good portion of the return run. Spectators waiting at the finish line speculated …
Some four hours before sunrise at 03:43, the first Junior Musher, Noah Pereira pulled his snow hook and followed the narrow snowy trail out to the Yentna River. Two minutes later, Conway Seavey followed then Jenny Greger. By 06:52, all the mushers were running toward the finish line at Willow Lake. The dogs were jazzed! …
After running on well-groomed trails in absolutely perfect weather conditions, it was no surprise that the Junior Iditarod canine athletes wanted to keep going once they reached the Yentna Station halfway checkpoint. Teams made the turn off the river and climbed the bank to pause briefly for signing in and the mandatory bag check. The …
13 x 13 x 13! Thirteen young mushers left the start line for the 2013 Junior Iditarod while the temperature with wind chill was at 13 degrees above. The start from Knik Lake went off without a hitch as teams left the starting line in two-minute intervals. The one hundred fifty mile trail was marked …