The sled dogs and sled dog racing


Going To The Dogs At Iditarod

Want to combine history, culture, spectacularexploration of the state. From Anchorage it's
natural sightseeing and wildlife in onepossible to undertake any number of winter
exciting family vacation? It's never beenactivities, including alpine skiing,
easier to tackle it all than with a vacationsledding, ice fishing, ice skiing, northern
taking you to one of the most exciting raceslights viewing, snowmobiling, snowshoeing,
in the world - the Iditarod Sled Dog Race inand, if inspired by the Iditarod racers, it's
beautiful  Alaska.possible to lead a dog sled team of your own!
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is aThe race finishes in Nome, on the western
challenging sled dog race in Alaska, heldBering sea coast, where travelers can
annually in February or March. This gruelingexperience a different kind of Alaska. Nome
race sees mushers and teams of huskiesis, like many Alaska towns, small and
covering 1150 miles (1850 km) in eight toisolated, but is unique in that it was
fifteen days. The scenery is spectacular -established as a Gold Rush boom town. The
with the teams passing glaciers and frozenfeeling of the wild west still pervades the
lakes and traveling through pristinecity streets. Nome gets a festival flavour
wilderness  as  they  race  for  the  finish.during the Iditarod, and features such events
as a reindeer potluck, native arts & crafts
Although racers can face brutal temperatures,show, Iditarod awards banquets, and the
forced to race through blizzards and whiteoutopportunity for tourists to "meet the
conditions, sub-zero temperatures, andmushers."
gale-force winds, for the *** NUMBER *** of
tourists who come up for a glimpse of theThis glamourous race commemorates a
action, this can make a comfortable,meaningful event in 1925, when a dog-sled
relaxing, and entirely unique winterteam raced medicine from Nenana to Nome to
vacation.save the town from a diphtheria epidemic.
Although there hasn't been quite the same
The ceremonial start occurs in Anchorage, apurpose in recent years, the Iditarod is
lively and charming town any time of year,still a fun adventure for travelers.
which provides a great base for other



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