Iditarod 2019 - The Last Great Race

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Here is a map graphic to show you the Iditarod route.

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For those of you who like to drink.... Up here we have what's called a "trailgate" party for mushing. here is a clip of Lance Mackey yesterday mushing through one.

 

[HoosierAloha 29,890]

For those of you who like to drink.... Up here we have what's called a "trailgate" party for mushing. here is a clip of Lance Mackey yesterday mushing through one.
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Yay! Let’s go freeze our @$$ off and drink. Wouldn’t you be happier drinking with your toes in the sand and actually being able to feel your face?


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[ALASKA HOOSIER 11,169]

36 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

Yay! Let’s go freeze our @$$ off and drink. Wouldn’t you be happier drinking with your toes in the sand and actually being able to feel your face?


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Who hurt you? was it someone close...perhaps an uncle?

Note: no one likes you.

[HoosierAloha 29,890]

Who hurt you? was it someone close...perhaps an uncle?
Note: no one likes you.

Don’t you have a “trail gate” party to attend? I hope you have face first into the snow and nobody finds you until the great thaw in July!

Note: your prediction for the next game is going to be way off again. Suck it!


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[ALASKA HOOSIER 11,169]

and it begins!

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Anja Radano - Bib No. 2 Status: Veteran Hometown: Talkeetna, Alaska  is the first to start followed by Matt Hall - Bib No. 3 Status: Veteran Hometown: Two Rivers, Alaska (another neighbor). don't know him though

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now, Mats Pettersson - Bib No. 4 Status: Veteran Hometown: Kiruna, Sweden has crossed the starting line.

to hell with posting all 52 mushers....i'm ready to start my trailgating!

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                                                               Kaiser and Petit lead the pack toward Rainy Pass

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I really just clicked on this thread to see if you and Aloha were still going at it.


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[HoosierAloha 29,890]

I really just clicked on this thread to see if you and Aloha were still going at it.


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I had to leave him alone so his wife could change his diaper after the “trail gate.”


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[ALASKA HOOSIER 11,169]

again...no one likes you Aloha.

[HoosierAloha 29,890]

again...no one likes you Aloha.

Quit stalking me


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as of 5 March 1116 AK time

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Sarah Stokey takes a nap in the sun with her team in the afternoon at the Rainy Pass checkpoint on Puntilla Lake in the Alaska Range during the 2019 Iditarod on Monday, March 4th 2019. Photo by Jeff Schultz/ (C) 2019 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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Sarah Stokey takes a nap in the sun with her team in the afternoon at the Rainy Pass checkpoint on Puntilla Lake in the Alaska Range during the 2019 Iditarod on Monday, March 4th 2019. Photo by Jeff Schultz/ © 2019 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Definitely beats a nap on the beach in a hammock.


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I started following @ADNIditarod  and a couple of stories have popped up that are really good reads.

https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/iditarod/2019/03/06/two-mushers-teamed-up-to-find-13-runaway-sled-dogs-on-the-iditarod-trail/

https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/iditarod/2019/03/06/back-of-the-pack-iditarod-mushers-trade-stories-about-a-wicked-trip-through-notorious-dalzell-gorge/

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***Breaking****

Aliy Zirkle is in the lead!

UPDATE, Thursday 7 a.m. -- Aliy Zirkle drove her team into Iditarod at 1:38 a.m. Thursday, the first musher to reach the halfway point of the race.

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