CuseTroop
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This is the big weekend folks. I'm sure we dont have many on here who have followed the Iditarod, or the sport of dog mushing, but man is it a cool deal. If nobody has any issues with it, I'll be posting updates of this years race. After work today I'll be headed down the Parks Highway to Anchorage for the pre race festivities, and the official start on Sunday.
Mushers- 67 Mushers are entered in this years race.
http://iditarod.com/race/2013/mushers/
Rudy Demoski- This ol' son of a gun. 67 years old. Hasent ran the Iditarod in 27 years. One of the first people I met when I came to Alaska, and has been a best friend of mine ever since. I'll be rooting hard for him to pull out a good finish
http://iditarod.com/race/2013/mushers/403-Rudy-Demoski-Sr/
Local boy Lance Mackey - Back to back Iditarod Champion, 4 time Yukon Quest champion, he is always a favorite to win. Had to drop out of this years Quest, he had a few dogs get sick and pass away on the trail. I run into him at the bars every once in a while, and one night ended up somewhere on the Dalton highway with a guy feeding Lance's dogs at like 3am. (meet some guy at the bar "wanna go feed sled dogs?" " yea I do" lol idk.
23 checkpoints between Anchorage and the finish line at Nome.
http://iditarod.com/race/2013/checkpoints/
One checkpoint, Anvik, is Rudys home village. He took me and my dad hunting down there this past fall. Larry Csonka hunts and fishes the Anvik river all the time. He is a house hold name down there.
http://iditarod.com/race/2013/checkpoints/15-Anvik/
http://iditarod.com/2013-iditarod-start-order/
Here is the starting order for the race. Rudy is happy with his 39th place start. This will let the mushers ahead of him break trail, making it nice and easy on his dogs. He said he knows plenty of places to pass, and doesnt expect to be in middle of the pack very long.
Couple web cam links
http://www.borealisbroadband.net/vid-4thandd.htm
down town Anchorage- this place will be packed tomorrow
http://www.borealisbroadband.net/vid-hilton2.htm
McGrath - http://www.borealisbroadband.net/vid-mcgrath1.htm
http://www.borealisbroadband.net/vid-iditarod.htm
Finish line in Nome - http://www.visitnomealaska.com/nome-web-cam.html
I'll be following Rudy, Lance and the rest of the field every step of the way thanks to the GPS feature on each of their sleds.
Mushers- 67 Mushers are entered in this years race.
http://iditarod.com/race/2013/mushers/
Rudy Demoski- This ol' son of a gun. 67 years old. Hasent ran the Iditarod in 27 years. One of the first people I met when I came to Alaska, and has been a best friend of mine ever since. I'll be rooting hard for him to pull out a good finish
http://iditarod.com/race/2013/mushers/403-Rudy-Demoski-Sr/
Local boy Lance Mackey - Back to back Iditarod Champion, 4 time Yukon Quest champion, he is always a favorite to win. Had to drop out of this years Quest, he had a few dogs get sick and pass away on the trail. I run into him at the bars every once in a while, and one night ended up somewhere on the Dalton highway with a guy feeding Lance's dogs at like 3am. (meet some guy at the bar "wanna go feed sled dogs?" " yea I do" lol idk.
23 checkpoints between Anchorage and the finish line at Nome.
http://iditarod.com/race/2013/checkpoints/
One checkpoint, Anvik, is Rudys home village. He took me and my dad hunting down there this past fall. Larry Csonka hunts and fishes the Anvik river all the time. He is a house hold name down there.
http://iditarod.com/race/2013/checkpoints/15-Anvik/
http://iditarod.com/2013-iditarod-start-order/
Here is the starting order for the race. Rudy is happy with his 39th place start. This will let the mushers ahead of him break trail, making it nice and easy on his dogs. He said he knows plenty of places to pass, and doesnt expect to be in middle of the pack very long.
Couple web cam links
http://www.borealisbroadband.net/vid-4thandd.htm
down town Anchorage- this place will be packed tomorrow
http://www.borealisbroadband.net/vid-hilton2.htm
McGrath - http://www.borealisbroadband.net/vid-mcgrath1.htm
http://www.borealisbroadband.net/vid-iditarod.htm
Finish line in Nome - http://www.visitnomealaska.com/nome-web-cam.html
I'll be following Rudy, Lance and the rest of the field every step of the way thanks to the GPS feature on each of their sleds.