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Cindy Abbott Trains for Iditarod 2013 to Raise Awareness of Rare Disease
It took Cindy Abbott 14 years to learn she had Wegeners granulomatosis, a rare vascular disease that affects about 1 in 20,000 to 30,000 people.
In an attempt to raise awareness about rare disea...
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Iditarod Historic Trail Statue Unveiled in Seward, Alaska
It could not have been a finer day for a historic dedication ceremony Thursday, May 3rd. The sun was out in the brisk afternoon, flocks of seagulls flew overhead squawking, and from within the Alask...
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North Pole Bids to Host 2013 International Federation of Sleddog Sports World Championships
The North Pole Economic Development Corp. got heavily involved in dog mushing two years ago when it helped develop a new trail bringing the North Pole Championship sled dog races closer to the cente...
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Soft Spring Snow Doesn't Slow Down Alaska Trapline Musher
LAKE MINCHUMINA, Alaska - Weather reports from Fairbanks sounded terrible on Easter weekend.
Clear, highs of 45 degrees50 degrees 55 degrees
At home, 150 miles to southwest, afternoons had b...
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Local Washington Newspaper Recounts Steves' 2012 Iditarod
Jan Steves is stuck. Going nowhere. A tiny speck in the largest state in the union.
It's well below freezing and Steves is deep into the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, the famous 1,100-mile trek a...
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Jim Lanier: Pathologist, 71, Wins Halfway Milestone in Iditarod
At first glance, being a pathologist and running sled dogs competitively in Alaska would seem to be completely different pursuits. But Jim Lanier, MD, a retired pathologist and career-long member of...
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2013 Iditarod Teacher On The Trail Announced
Linda Fenton, Waupaca, Wisconsin, has been selected as the 2013 Iditarod Teacher on the Trail. Linda is the 15th Teacher on the Trail to join this program that began in 1999.
Currently teaching ...
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Texas A&M Student Forecasted Weather for Iditarod Racers
Texas A&M meteorology student Stephanie Stevensons work extends beyond the desks of an Aggie classroom into the icy tundra of the Alaskan wilderness.
The honors student helped two sisters make hi...
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Junior Iditarod Racer Bailey Vitello Brings His Sled Dogs to Charlton Middle School
Strong leadership and a team that pulls together, succeeds. That was the lesson recently imparted to Charlton Middle School sixth-graders when local teen musher Bailey Vitello visited to share his s...
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Pam Flowers To Appear at Blowing Rock Museum on April 20th
Well-traveled explorer and childrens author Pam Flowers will cap off her visit to Blowing Rock on Friday, April 20, with an appearance at BRAHM at 5:30 p.m. Admission is free, although donations are...
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Dryland: Missoula's Suzanne Reed Has An Urban Transportation Plan
I'm standing on the narrow asphalt road that runs north from Fort Missoula, watching 58-year-old Suzanne Reed drag a shiny metal cart attached to a kick-scooter across the platform bolted to the top...
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Northern People: Musher Takes Alaska by Storm
Ken Chezik may have been an underdog, but his dogs finished before everyone else's to win the gold in the 2012 Anchorage Fur Rendezvous World Championship Sled Dog Race.
"In sprint racing it's th...
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Fairbanks Musher Ken Anderson Captures Kobuk 440
Veteran Fairbanks musher Ken Anderson crossed the finish line in Kotzebue at midday Sunday to capture the Kobuk 440, the last race of the season for distance racers.
Despite a top prize of $12,00...
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A Fiery Win For Dog Musher
On March 27, Andrei Semashkin crossed a finish line in the village of Ossora and became this year's champion of the Beringia dog sled race. He'd traveled 1,068 kilometers in 83 hours and 16 minutes....
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Kobuk 440 Started Thursday - Purse Tops $50,000
Mushers gathered their ganglines and checked them twice yesterday in Kotzebue for the start of the Kobuk 440.
The Kobuk features 440 miles over arctic terrain starting in Kotzebue and stopping al...
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Husky Race Team Is Best In The Country
Four-legged friends from the Mendips have helped local husky-racers to be crowned the best in the country.
Martin and Debbie Owen, from Priddy, race their home-bred huskies in competitions as far...
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Erharts Rule Minto Winter Carnival Races
Erharts took three of the top four spots as the Minto Winter Carnival sled dog race wrapped up Saturday afternoon.
Carl Erhart posted the fastest time of the day (45 minutes, 48 seconds) for the ...
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First Day of Minto Races in the Book
Fairbanks Jennifer Probert won the Minto Spring Carnivals womens sled dog race Thursday with a time of 33 minutes, 44 seconds.
The race, which is 9.5 miles long, was ran in its entirety Thursday,...
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Iditarod Committee Announces Inaugural Wildcat Race
The organizing committee of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race recently announced the formation of the Iditarod Trail Wildcat Adventure Race, a companion race that will be run on a portion of the same...
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Musher Who Finished 30th in Iditarod Wins $39,000 Truck in Raffle
As it turned out, Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey isnt the only musher who will end up driving away with a new Dodge 4x4 pickup truck after this years 1,000-mile race to Nome.
Scott Janssen of An...
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