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The Alaskan Iditarod 2006

The Last Great Race

http://www.iditarod.com/ - The Official Site of the Iditarod

http://surfaquarium.com/eIditarod/ - The Online Iditarod Project we did

We saw "Eight Below" a Disney movie about sled dogs

working on our Alaskan map

finished Alaskan map

finished legend

Emily's finished sled

Ethan's finished sled

Emily's first igloo attempt

Ethan's first igloo attempt

Ethan's square igloo

Emily's square igloo

ready to start running

run dogs run

beautiful trail

camoing out on the trail

run dogs run

sled tipping over

dogs sleeping during rest breaks

frozen bearded bog

dropped dogs flying back to Anchorage

Jeff King's frozen mustache

The mushers we chose for the 2006 race:

  • Ethan chose Mitch Seavey (2004 Iditarod winner) UPDATE came in 9th this year 2006

  • Emily chose Deedee Jonrowe (2nd place Iditarod winner in '93, '96 & '98) UPDATE came in 4th this year 2006

  • I chose Rachel Scdoris (she's blind) UPDATE came in 57th this year 2006

  • I also chose Paul Gebhardt (one year lead dog was killed by an angry moose) UPDATE came in 3rd this year 2006

UPDATE Jeff King won in 9 days 11 hours 11 minutes 36 seconds - 1049 miles!!!

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