Posted on 03/14/2020 1:41:24 PM PDT by Morgana
When mushers arrive in Ruby, it marks the beginning of the journey on the Yukon River. The first musher to reach that milestone is treated to a five-course meal and other prizes. Jessie Royer won that award and shared her meal with other front-runners.
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Good doggies!
On a related note, if you like dogs, Togo is a pretty good movie that’s out now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMfyueM-ZBQ
https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/togo-siberian-husky-sled-dog-hero-of-1925/
Our Husky’s love kisses!
But they love the snow a lot more.
And jerky treats.....
If you haven’t seen this, you’ll enjoy it (of course, the dogs don’t talk, but their mushers talk about them):
FACES OF IDITAROD
This is a just small sampling of the thousands of selfless people involved, one way or the other, in the Last Great Race on Earth®. Mushers, volunteers, spectators, village residents and of course the canine athletes. They are all on equal footing here. The images were made during pre-race activities as well as all along the 1,049 miles of trail from Anchorage to Nome. Both outdoors and indoors. Our hope is that from the images here, which take the subject out of the Iditarod elements, combined with their stories (audio & written) and personal info, will show what this thing we call the IDITAROD® really is an Alaska event of real-life humans and superstar canines that is simply like no other event in the world.
CLICK ON A PHOTO TO READ THEIR STORIES & HEAR THEIR VOICES.
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The first dog I saw was “Tundra” & I was ‘hooked’ on this site!
https://faces.iditarod.com/tundra/
ALASKA PING
Jesse Holmes is in 14th place, moving up from 20th yesterday and had the fastest avg. speed in the race.
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