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Sanka W. Dog
Fall is here and there are plenty of signs beyond the date on the calendar. The days are shorter, the nights are cooler, the stars seem brighter and we have started fall dry land training runs! Here in Wisconsin, the temperatures are dipping into the 40s by morning so we are taking advantage of the …
What’s in the sled bag? Every musher is required to carry some mandatory gear. Locate the race rules on the Iditarod web page. Find out what items mushers are required to carry. Some items are for the well being of the canine athletes and some items are for the safety of the musher. Make a …
The JR Iditarod mushers run 75 miles out to the Yentna Station Road House. The starter/timer out at Yentna records the time each of the JR Iditarod mushers checks into the halfway checkpoint. Your problem is to calculate the time each of the mushers can depart Yentna for the finish line in Willow. The mushers …
How can the first team to cross the finish line be the winner if teams depart from the start at 2 minute intervals? Teams are required to take a long rest. For the JR Iditarod it’s 10 hours and for Iditarod it’s 24 hours. A time adjustment is added to their departure after the long …
How many booties will a musher need for the Gold Trail Loop? Assume a musher will put new booties on at the start and when leaving every checkpoint. The musher is starting with 14 dogs and plans to finish with 14 dogs. Remember that a musher is required to carry 8 booties in the sled …
On the day of the June Volunteer/Musher Signup Picnic, two musher’s names are drawn at the end of the day to receive the $3,000 entry fee. Veteran Mitch Seavey and Rookie Gabe Dunham were the lucky winners for 2020! Mushers have a lot of expenses, including dog booties. One bootie costs $3, but most mushing …
How do race officials avoid a mix up between times before noon and times after noon? In civiliam time, an AM or PM is added to the time. During the race, times are reported using the 24-hour clock known as Military time. Briefly, 12:00 AM or midnight is written as 0000 hours. 1:00 AM is …
There are 10 teams registered to run the Jr. Iditarod. The Jr. Iditarod begins on the last Saturday of February. The honorary musher will wear bib #1. The competing mushers will wear bibs 2 through 11. Bib #2 will leave the start at exactly 10:00 am. Teams will follow at two-minute intervals. What time will …
This February will mark the 44th running of the Jr. Iditarod. The Junior, just like the Iditarod, began as a dream. It was Joe Redington who dreamed of a long distance race across Alaska to commemorate the place of the sled dog in the history of Alaska and bring recognition to the Historic Iditarod Trail. …
It’s Sanka W. Dog here to bring you a book report. My friend, Pam Flowers, has recently written TOGO & Leonhard. So I want to tell you about it because it’s a great read. TOGO and Leonhard is a true historical account of the role Leonhard Seppala and his lead dog, Togo, played in the 1925 …