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=Welcome to the Iditarod Collaborative Project = =Project Begins Monday, February 9th =

Good luck everyone. I hope you enjoy working on the Iditarod Collaborative Project. Ms B
=[|The official Iditarod Sled Dog Race page.]= =[|Lance Mackey Wins the Iditarod!! Wednesday, March 18th]=

Saturday, March 21st
All of the mushers that we were following in the race have finished and are in Nome, except for one musher that scratched. Here are the results for our mushers:

Group #1: Lance Mackey 1st Group #14: Sebastian Schnuelle 2nd Group #15: Mitch Seavey 4th Group #11: Cim Smyth 5th Group #10: Jessie Royer 8th Group #2: Ramey Smyth 9th Group #4: Hans Gatt 10th Group #12: Jeff King 12th Group #7: DeeDee Jonrowe 13th Group #9: Ken Anderson 14th Group #6: Paul Gebhardt 16th Group #5: Martin Buser 18th Group #3: Gerry Willonitzer 24th Group #13: Rick Swenson 25th Group #8: Ed Iten Scratched at Elim 4th last checkpoint

There are still 17 mushers left out on the course. Who do you think will win the Red Lantern award?

Mushers Chosen for the 2009 Iditarod Project!
Group #1: Lance Mackey Group #2: Ramey Smyth Group #3: Gerry Willomitzer Group #4: Hans Gatt Group #5: Martin Buser Group #6: Paul Gebhardt Group #7: DeeDee Jonrowe Group #8: Ed Iten Group #9: Ken Anderson Group #10: Jessie Royer Group #11: Cim Smyth Group #12: Jeff King Group #13: Rick Swenson Group #14: Sebastian Schnuelle Group #15: Mitch Seavey fluffyman 2.0 and googlyeyes check the Iditarod route.

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Here are some pictures that show the beginning of the race. The race begins on March 7th, 2009
Photos are from Flickr Creative Commons.

I hope everyone is excited as I am about beginning this project. Ms B
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During the 1925 diphtheria epidemic, 20 dog sleds and 105 dogs raced medicine to the sick children in Nome. They brought the medicine from Nenana to Nome; this journey brought them all the way across Alaska. The dogs ran 100 miles each day so that the serum would not freeze and so they would get to Nome faster. The serum run was like a relay the dogs would run to there checkpoint and then another dog team would take over. Balto was one of the lead dogs. Balto suffered from canine arthritis and they had safety concerns about him. Balto was also deaf and blind so balto was really old at that time balto died in 1993 he was stuffed and put in a museum