Middle of the Pack
Heidi Sloan
March 13, 2023
Dear Friends, If you are watching the standings or the GPS tracker of the sled dog teams, much emphasis is placed on the top five.
Dear Friends, If you are watching the standings or the GPS tracker of the sled dog teams, much emphasis is placed on the top five.
Dear Friends, When sled dog teams come into a checkpoint, what happens? Sleds are checked for required items. Vets check the dogs. The musher
Dear Friends, As teams make their way on the southern route of the Iditarod Trail, you may notice that it has gotten colder! For
Dear Friends, Some of you may have spring flowers blooming. Those temperatures wouldn’t be good for sled dogs right now, because we love running in
Dear Friends, Some things on this race have broken or been hurt: sleds of Ryan Redington and Katti Jo Deeter finger of Jennifer LeBar
Dear Friends, The dog teams in the 2023 Iditarod have blasted onto the trail! Most of us picture a musher raising puppies, training them into
Dear Friends, It is an exciting week in Alaska! The mushers and their sled dogs are getting ready for the big start of the race
Dear Friends, Gypsy, canine reporter, here! Right now, mushers are beginning fall training runs with me and my sled dog friends. We need to keep
Greetings, Teachers! Spring is in the air and temperatures are rising. While basking in the sun and taking an afternoon nap the other day on
Dear Friends, The race is done for this year! What an exciting time it was for everyone! Many of the mushers and us dogs are
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If you were not able to attend our Winter Conference in Anchorage this year, do not worry! The Iditarod education department is teaming up
Are people in Nome always waiting at the finish line for mushers to arrive? Nope! But when a musher is about one mile away, a
Jessie Holmes did it! He was the first musher to guide his team under the Burled Arch in the wee hours of Friday morning. Of
This morning bib number 15, Jessie Holmes, was the first musher into White Mountain just as the sun was rising over the Niukluk River. While
In the Iditarod world, more than half of the remaining mushers have reached the coast! Your students might notice that mushers are staying an extra
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