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Eragon Assignment #2 H istory O f T he I idatrod The Iditarod is a 938-mile dogsled race that runs from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. The Iditarod started when gold miners came from all over the world And needed a transportation system and so used native Huskies and Russian traders brought Siberian Huskeys with them and so the sport was established. Some say it is the last great race in the America or even in the world. The Iditarod most famous race dog was Balto. Balto was a Siberian Husky who the final leg of the 1925 Serum Run to Nome, Alaska. By Eragon

Tasha Assignment #1

**__ ABOUT BALTO __** In the story of Balto there were having a race of 20 dog team. To get to the train and back it took 5 days and 7hour because they got lost. The statue of Balto was kept in NYC in central part. The body of Balto was in Cleveland and its going to stay there but only the statue is going to stay in Cleveland. To get to the trail it takes 674 mile in 27.5 hour to get there. They had to carry the med by train but then they only went as for as they could cause its wild up there. After when Balto came and help them to find there way back the team was called nana. Diphtheria is a lung disease.

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__Hard ship__ It would be hard to stay out side for lots of days because my teeth chatter went I talk to the people that Iam talking too. Also my body feels like I can’t move anything. I don’t like it when my lip turn purple.aslo it feel really ticklish in a rack way.

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Balto was suddenly a world-famous celebrity; for two years after the serum run, the dog and some of his teammates traversed the continental United States as part of a traveling show. After Balto died in 1933, his body was preserved and displayed at Cleveland's Natural History Museum. In 1995, a popular animated movie about Balto was released, adding to his fame.

Long after his death, Balto's popularity lives on. Today, some Alaskan schoolchildren are campaigning to bring Balto back to his home state. The students want his body moved to the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race museum in Wasilla. But Cleveland officials aren't ready to give Balto back, noting he spent more than half his life in their city. There are plans in the works, however, for Balto to return to Alaska as part of a temporary exhibit at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art -- a testament to the strength of Balto's memory and a fitting memorial to his indomitable spirit.

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It started on 1973 in Nome .The Iditarod is 1,150 miles long and it's about 10 to 17 days. It's been called "The Last Great Race". It is from Anchorage, in south central Alaska, to Nome on the western Bering Sea coast. Each team had 12 to 16 dogs. There were 5 different video crews recording it and they were the German, Spanish, British, Japanese and American. There are certain pieces of equipment each team must have: an arctic parka, a heavy sleeping bag, an ax, snowshoes, musher food, dog food and boots for each dog’s feet to protect against cutting ice and hard packed snow injuries. The next Iditarod is XXXVI on Saturday March 1 2008. This is something really cool!! The current fastest winning time record was set in 2002 by Martin Buser with a time of 8 days, 22 hours, 46 minutes, and 2 seconds. Cool isn't it. If you want to join the Iditarod you'll have to wear good layers because it is -100C. Most modern teams cost $10,000 to $40,000, and the top 10 spend between $80,000 and $100,000 a year. The top finisher won at least $69,000; the remaining top thirty finishers won an average of $26,500 each musher make money from their sponsorships, speaking fees, advertising contracts and book deals. And there you have it the history.

Bibliography: http://vecchiosalice.altervista.org/immagini/articoli_file/BaltoCarcass.jpg http://www.hickoksports.com/images/iditarodmap.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iditarod_Trail_Sled_Dog_Race http://www.iditarod.com/

Iditarod Trail Map

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from nome to anchorage u have to travll west and east to get to anchorage i'l take lots of hours to get there __ Snow __ When the wind blows at your face you begin shivering you can stop it if you are shivering. When come inside and out of the cold you’ll feel really comfortable when you are covering up with a blanket. When you come inside you can’t hardly move your hands real fast like before. When you are snowboarding and you are going down the hill its feels like your face is getting pinch but it is just getting a frost bit. You can tell if you are cold if your nose is red. If you are outside for a real long time you can get a cold. so thats how i feel when iam cold.</span

mscree:assignment #2

When its minus 50 it feels like your bathing in ice but your not and we have no recess and everyone stays in.Whenn its minus 40 we still dont have recess because its still to cold but when its minus forty it feels like your toes, fingers, and face is frozen.When its minus 30 its actually not that bad.Ive never actually felt how minus 60 felt im not to sure if my teachers have but if it was minus 70 could you imagen that wind at 60km an hour no school and snow piling up at everyones doors it would be like living in Antarctica or worse.Antarctica is probably half as bad as ares so why do we complain when its probably worse somewhere else.

The March 1 ceremonial start in Anchorage will go 11 miles (18 kilometers), 7 miles (11 kilometers) less than the traditional route.

The actual competitive start of the 1,100-mile (1,800-kilometer) race the following day will move 30 miles (50 kilometers) north to Willow, from the traditional Frozen Rank Ouch Shivery Tingely Bite Ice Touchy Eww

Doug Swingley was born on May 14, 1953. This four-time champ returns to the starting line this year after a finishing second in his quest to make it number five. He suffered a traumatic and untimely end to his run in 2004 when he froze his corneas and had to be flown out for emergency medical attention. Following that unfortunate incident, Swingley announced his retirement in 2002 and married his sweetheart, Melanie Shirilla, under the Burled Arch in Nome. He sat out 2003, but found that he could not quit that easily, and there was that chance at achieving a more strident place in Iditarod history. Another victory would make Doug a five-time champion, a distinction held by only one musher in the race's history – the venerable Rick Swenson. On his very first race, Swingley established his presence by winning the Halfway Award, letting the rest of the field know that he had come to win and not just to race. He was named Rookie of the Year that first year, and has added many more laurels to his resume since that initial effort. Swingley dominated the 2000 race, winning the Halfway Award, First to the Yukon Award and Gold Coast Award as he became the fifth musher in race history to win three championships. In 2001, all five of those "three-time champion" mushers had a shot at pulling away from the pack with a fourth victory, but Swingley put on another seminar and comfortably bagged the fourth trophy. Swingley won four races including the last three in a row, before his 2002 "retirement tour". Excitement was very high in 2002, as race fans prepared for a real Swingley slugfest, but shortly after reaching the first checkpoint he began falling behind. Speculation ran wild until Swingley announced that he was going to retire, and was using this last run to say goodbye to people he knew along the trail. As is so often the case, Iditarod retirement doesn't mean for very long, and he was back on the runners after sitting out only one race, then came the eye tragedy. In 2006, Swingley stated that he had given himself three years to win two more times. Now he has only two of those years left. A fifth victory would tie him with Rick Swenson who has owned the top of the mountain with five trophies since 1991. Swingley began mushing in 1989 when his brother, Greg, got him interested in the Iditarod. Since his ninth-place finish in his first Iditarod, in 1992, he's been a runner-up three times, in 1996, 1997 and 2006 and won the race in 1995, 1999, 2000 and 2001. From their Lincoln, MT home, the Swingleys train dogs and refine their kennel. Swingley has two adult children, Heidi and Wes. He is a member of the Montana Mountain Mushers and the ITC.

HEALTH AND SAFETY When you go outside you should wear goggles so I can protect your eye. When you go outside for a longtime were warm clothes also dress right. If you go for a long Freezing Rose cheeks Outside Snow Tingling Bite Ice Tissues freezes Extremities __DOUG SWINGLEY__ He made a long decision to scratch at 12:36 this after noon (March 05, 2007) at rainy pass checkpoint on PUNTLLA lake in the Alaska range. According to the officials he had to suffered broken ribs. He was the cares for the teams. He also dislocate from his finger. He was the probably the best careful dog team ever.

Eragon Assignment #2

W eather. Weather is hot, temperate or cold. In Alaska it always seems to be cold the snow comes down in blizzards and it stays at 0 Celsius and seems it will never be warm again. But also in Fairbanks it got up to 94 Fahrenheit in the summer, but still Alaska is very cold. By Eragon =ASSIGNMENT #3: GEOGRAPHY OF THE RACE=

mscree:assignment #3 south east just through ophir 1 south west 2 cripple and ruby 3 east 4 wasilla 5 ophir,cripple,ruby,galena,nulato,kaltag,unalakleet 6 wasilla,knik,yentna,skwentna,finger lake,rainy pass,rohn 7 because in alaska its mostly all white and theres no flags or anything to see were you are going if you go off track and stuff

__What I want to be when I grow up__ When I grow up I want to be a doctor causes I can play kind of lots of money. Also I like health cause I’ve been learning lots of stuff about it. Health is my favorite subject in school. My favorite auntie was a doctor and I want to be like her. also i won't have to stay home all the time. __What I want to be when I grow up__ When I grow up I want to be a doctor causes I can play kind of lots of money. Also I like health cause I’ve been learning lots of stuff about it. Health is my favorite subject in school. My favorite auntie was a doctor and I want to be ne too. And why I want to be a doctor also cause I won’t have to stay home all the time.

=ASSIGNMENT #4: DOG SLED TEAMS= By Eragon 1.Eragon: It is my online Nickname 2.Fletcher: It is from a book called Half Moon Investigations 3.Artemis: It is from a book called Artemis Fowl 4.Boots: He is my Cat 5.Ivan: He is Boots’s brother 6.Lepy: He is my Little Lizard 7.Poppi: He is my fish 8. Marigold: She is my other fish 9.Steve: He is my Dad 10.Jennifer: She is my Mom 11.Gwenie: She was my old cat 12.Comett: He was my old fish 13.Dennis: He was also my older fish 14.Eldest: It is a great book and sequel to Eragon 15.Posiden: He is the Greek God of Water 16.Carlos: He is named after my Favorite Baseball Player 17.Julius: He is named after the Roman leader Julius Ceaser 18.Riley: He is my Best Friend 19.Jordan: It is in a book that a read like 5 years ago 20.SpongeBob: Ok I had to put in a funny name so here it is
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Gerry Willomitzer has been following the Yukon Quest closely and has a few opinion about it and its competitors. He had pushing his team for a long distances in his battle for the third place rather than a strategy of shorter more frequent run. The Willomiter is running the same as the other person. I think willomitzer is going to win the race cause it sounds like he fast and all that. mscree assignment:#4 Gerry Willomitzer, 38, was born in Bavaria, Germany and immigrated to Canada in 1996. Gerry is a four-time Yukon Quest finisher and in 2007 finished both the Yukon Quest (3rd place) and his first Iditarod. He has received Humanitarian Awards in the Yukon Quest, Copper Basin and Percy deWolfe. In the summers Gerry works as a log building contractor. His hobbies are "logs and dogs." my guy has only been in the iditarod for two years and has won some sort of vet award or something. __Chores__ I like to my chores when iam bored. I like doing the dishes also sweping the flour. I do mostly all the chores around the house. But I don’t like to pick the toys up for my my little brother and sisters. They mostly make a mess with the toy every day I don’t mind doing the dishes ,sweping the flours and doing londry those I don’t mind doing when I ‘am bored,

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//Hi mom and dad! I believe for our family trip we should go to the Iditarod. It would be educational event because you can// //Learn about why they started the event. Alaska is one of two the// //States outside of the continental United States of America, it would be a wonderful thing, it would be a whole new adventure for the// //Family. // //I bet even my annoying sisters will like it. It is fats paced and it will be // //Totally worth it in the end. I believe Alaska will be the place to go for our // //“Educational” family trip. //  //The history of the Iditarod is this… // //In 1925, in Nome, Alaska there was a terrible disease called diphtheria and all the medicine was gone so a group of sled dogs went to Anchorage and back to Nome and got all of the medicine to // //The ill. So some years later someone organized the first Iditarod and so now every year musher race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska to see whom the. The first Iditarod took place in 1973 with a total of 34 mushers. The winner of the first Iditarod was Dick Wilmarth. People come from allover the world to compete in the Great American Sled Dog Race the Iditarod. //  //Here is the weather in Alaska… // //Now I won’t lie but Alaska is cold and it is snowy and all those things but // //I believe it would be fine we could buy warm coats and wool socks. Just let’s not get frostbite (except maybe my little sister Rosy) I mean it is warm in the summer but we would be there in the winter and I know the average temperature is about 19 Degrees Fahrenheit. But still I bet you 5 bucks it will be worth it in the end //  //The Geography of Alaska is there is allot of snow and mountains // //And there is a lot of mountains one are Mt. McKinley the tallest mountain in North America so maybe we could go there after the Iditarod. Now back to persuade you to let us go to the Iditarod, There are several rivers one is the Yukon River which run from about North to South in Alaska there are many ranges one is called the Alaska Range. So there are a couple of things about // //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'">The Geography of the Iditarod // <span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'"> //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'">Now it is about the Mushers and Sled dogs // //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'">A couple mushers are Gerry Willomitzer, Jeff King, and Matt Hayashida and many more. Some famous sled dogs are Balto, Hot Foot and a lot others. Most sled dog is Alaskan Husky but some are a bread of Wolf and Dog, // //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'">Siberian Huskies and Alaskan malamute and some other types of dogs. // <span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'"> //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'">So those are 5 reasons my I believe we should go to Alaska. I think it would be the funnest Family trip in the History of the Family (well maybe, I guess that trip where dad fell off a cliff was good but you know what I mean) so in conclusion I believe we should go to Alaska to see the Iditarod. // <span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'"> __IDITAROD__ For a vacation I would want to go to Alaska Because I would like to see a sled dog race. Also it would be fun to meet a musher that won the Iditarod race. Also I’ll tell my mom to let us go to the Iditarod so we can see what it is like staying there instead of being in the same place all the time. And I would like to see want its like to go in a dog sled or to see a really good ice glue that is finish
 * //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 16pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt">Sincerely, //**
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