....and for the next 2 weeks I will be bringing you snippets of coverage from the world's most famous sled dog race. Here is the route map for the race.
There are 83 mushers taking part in this year's race. Here is the entry list. Once again, a lot of focus will be on "Team Norway", the informal grouping of Norwegian mushers who pool their dogs and training approaches and have been rewarded with 2 wins by Robert Sorlie in recent years. This year, Team Norway will run 3 teams - 2 front-line teams and a learning team.
The official Iditarod site is nowhere near as good as the Alaska Daily News site, which is where I will be getting most of my information and photos from.
Tomorrow I hope to write about some of the rules for the race.