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    Iditarod 2012 begins on Saturday, March 3, 2012!  The Iditarod is a dogsled race across the state of Alaska - over 1000 miles through the Alaska wilderness!  Each team of one musher plus 12-16 race dogs will travel through the mountains, woods and across the Bering Sea to the finish line.  Some teams will be on the trail for two to three weeks!

    This is the 40th Iditarod race! Because it is the 40th anniversary of the first Iditarod Race and the 100th anniversary of the Iditarod Trail itself, several retired mushers are returning for this special year.  Jeff King retired 2 years ago and is back this year!  Dan Seavey also returns from retirement and is the only musher racing this year that actually raced in the first race 40 years ago!  

    Third grade classes will be following the Iditarod this year. Each class is voting on a musher to follow during the race.  In addition, Mrs. Coyne, Mrs. Smith and Mr. Dominick are each choosing a favorite musher.  The students will be checking daily via GPS and the Internet to track the progress of all these teams!

    Click on the links below to find out more about the Alaska, the Iditarod, and this year's race!

        pawprint      Iditarod Home Page                     
        pawprint           Map of the Iditarod trail 
             pawprint          2012 Musher Profiles                                           
             pawprint          Race Champions and Record Holders 
            pawprint         The 2012 Route - Northern Route      

        pawprint      Iditarod Glossary  
        
         pawprint    Iditarod Rules      
             pawprint       Photos         
     
             pawprint         Karen Land at Vassar
                                   Iditarod musher Karen Land and her sled dog
                                           visited Vassar Road in 2011! 
                        Click link above to see a PowerPoint
                                           presentation from her visit.
     
               pawprint        Zuma's Paw Prints - Newsletters written by K9 reporters! 
                    Read about the race from the dog's point of view
     
              pawprint        The Serum Run Game
     
         pawprint     The Iditarod Historic National Trail  
                                  Centennial (100 Years) Celebration 2008-2012
     
                                  Rick answers students's questions about the Iditarod Race