The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is the most popular sporting
even in Alaska. It is a long distance sled dog race run that takes place every
year in the month of March. The team consists of 12-16 dogs, and ‘Mushers’, the
term used for the people who are in the team. The race lasts between 9 and 15
days.
The teams often race through blizzards causing whiteout
conditions, sub-zero temperatures and gale-force winds. Temperatures can go to
as low as -73 degrees Celsius.
The race starts in Willow, in central Anchorage, a city in
Alaska. The trail runs from Willow, up the rainy pass of the Alaska Range,
along the shore of the Bering Sea, and Ending in Nome in the West of Alaska. The
mushers trail through harsh landscape of tundra and spruce forests, over hills
and mountain passes, and across rivers.
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