[Falconspeed]

Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is wonderful.
Each musher starts with a set of 80 dogs and then picks the best 20 for the race. Each team has a lead dog who is super smart. If you meet a lead dog from the Iditarod, then you will think it is like meeting a person: super smart. Each dog sleeps in the snow and gets brushed off in the mornings. The history started with the gold rush in Nome and the need for mushers to deliver the mail.

[Mears]

That was a bucket list thing for me-———sounds wonderful.

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[snowtigger]

The history of the Iditarod race starts with a diphtheria epidemic in Nome. Serum was not available. It was rushed to Alaska.

Meanwhile, mushers and their teams (all volunteers) were stationed along the Iditarod trail, along with another trail from Nenana, Alaska, the closest point on the Alaska railroad.

From these two points, the teams relayed the serum in temperatures as cold as -60 degrees, from checkpoint to checkpoint,changing teams along the way.

The team fron Nenana got there first.

I won't say they won, because the winners were the people of Nome.