"We just sort 'a came together with some common goals and a vision."

"It's unlike any other event in the world. A race over 1,150 miles of the most extreme and beautiful terrain known to man: across mountain ranges, frozen rivers, dense forests, desolate tundra and windswept coastline. Add sub-zero temperatures and blinding winds, and you've got the makings of a legendary adventure. That's the Iditarod." Iditarod home page.

It's over 1150 miles long and takes as long as the weather, terrain, dogs and mushers will allow. Officially it is "The Iditarod Sled Dog Race" and it starts in Anchorage, Alaska and ends in Nome. It traverses hills, valleys, tundra, packed snow, fresh snow, ice, no snow, forests. whatever it takes! Races last from 10 - 17 days for the first place teams. It takes much longer for the rest of the pack.

In 1925, part of the Iditarod Trail became a life saving highway for epidemic-stricken Nome. Diphtheria threatened and serum had to be brought in; again by intrepid dog mushers and their faithful hard-driving dogs. The trail is on the National Register of Historic Places and commemorates the valiant effort of dogs and the compassion of man.