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Doug Swingly When the 2004 Iditarod Doug forgot his goggles at the check point he froze his eyes and was forced to drop out of the race but the next Iditarod he was told that he was not allowed to join that years Iditarod. So he snuck into the race and ended up winning the moral of the story is to always fulfill your dreams no matter what obstacles you face. By:Tristan and Kortlund

Frostbite By Tristan

Freezing Rain On Skin That Burns In The Elbow

Freezing Red Open Sore Torn Broken Infected Terrible Evil By:Kortlund

The problems the musher’s faces is cold weather and harsh conditions such as knowing where to go in the blowing wind and cold. And not killing the dog team and trying to keep them protected from the cold. By:Kortlund

What does cold feels like?

When we get cold we feel like our faces are burning. It also feels like its hot and cold all at the same time, but it all still hurts. Sometimes it feels like we are frozen and don’t want to move. To try and not get cold we wear a lot of clothes, but then we get hot in all those clothes and it feels good to be cold. After being cold it’s a relief to be warm.

Frozen Raw Ow Soar Terror Black Ice Terrible Ew Risks Mushers Take When They Race One of the risk’s the mushers and they’re dogs take is catching diseases. One of those diseases is hypothermia. Another one of those conditions that is more comely known is frostbite. Frostbite is when the tissue or a body part freezes. Ice crystals form on the inside of the body that can destroy the tissues. Some of body parts that you can loose are- finger, toe, or even foot! For example it affects the ears, nose, fingers and toe most often. Frostbite includes all layers of skin, and big frostbite can include freezing of muscle and bone. there are many things that can hurt or kill that come from the cold. all of this information proves how cold it can be in Alaska, in fact the reguler temp. in Alaska is -13 each day.

Doug Swingley

In 2004 Iditarod Doug Swingley dropped out of the race because of frostbite on his eyes or corneas. The reason he had gotten frostbite was because he had taken of his goggles for at least 4 miles to stay on the trail. He nearly went blind but came back for the 2005 race. Since the injury, his night vision has gotten worst, so he only races during the day. He also had other injuries like broken ribs and even a broken thumb because of a fall on a slick icy hill that was a few miles away the Rainy Pass checkpoint. One thing that we can learn from his experience is to hold on tight when mushing. Doug was strong and pulled through the accident and continued his dream.

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1 What does being cold feel like? I think cold is painful, it hurts some times because when your really cold you mite just get frost bite or mite even get hypothermia from it. It might even be scary to people like if some one were to get stuck out side because of something fell on you and the temperatures were in the negatives you could easily die. The coldest IV ever been was when last winter was here I went outside to go ice fishing with my uncle and I was definitely not prepared because I had no hat on, shorts and a hoodey on. The temperature that day was probably one degree. I thought the blood in my vanes was going to freeze. I could explain cold to you easily cold is like just learning your 12 year old dog just died or some one just broke up with you I think its painful.

2 In Alaska February 18, 2009 the temperatures in Nome are Very cold the temperature is 4 degrees that’s cold, the humidity is 88 also. When in Alaska in the winter temperatures usually go between 14 degrees to -40. In Nome they get freezing fog in Pennsylvania weave never got any freezing fog. I don’t think that our state has ever went below -19or -20 wow. The musher and dogs of these years Iditarod are in for a great race this year the winner would take home a whole lot of money. The musher’s of this year Iditarod should probably watch out for frost bite, you wouldn’t like to loose a nose would you. The weather in the race is going to be cold and no body likes the cold.

Frost Runners Out Stinging Tingly Birr Icicle Tickly Empty

What happen to Doug Swingley? What happened to Doug Swingly was he got frost bite on his corneas. This caused him to withdraw the Iditarod race. The corneas are the gel like substances on your eyes. Doug swingley probably would have prevented this if he would have worn goggles or something in front of his eyes. I can learn from this by wearing goggles when the wind is blowing or put on glasses. Fortunately Doug Swingly got to race in the next Iditarod so he didn’t go blind.

By Drummer