WorldWide IDEA's Idita-Read

Photo Credits

»» Thanks to WorldWide IDEA teacher Tanya Korta, for most of the photos used in this site's general design. The photos are of her family's sled dog team, with her husband, Jon, who has participated in the 2007 and 2008 Iditarod Races. To learn more about his team and to read some mushing stories, visit their Borealis Kennel. To learn more about our teacher, Tanya Korta — as well as our other staff members — please visit WorldWide IDEA's About Us page.

»» The "Congratulations! You've reached" a checkpoint photo is credited to:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahalie/ / CC BY-SA 2.0

Special Checkpoint Content

NOTE: This content is viewable only by Team Managers and participating mushers who reach each trail checkpoint.

»» Mountain Mushers, the only hero sled dog educational/therapy team in the U.S., for providing photos, an excerpt from their book, Pixie: Sled Dog of Snow Park, and other information.

»» Guy E. Henry, author, for providing excerpts from his book, Eowyn and Linus On the Iditarod Trail.

2010 Race: March 6 - April 30; Training Opens: February 1

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Total Race Mileage

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Event Blog

Updates by Kersch, Event Coordinator

Mushers Hot on the Trail!

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Mushers are off and running this morning — how cool to see students so excited to get running as soon as the race date opened, even on a Saturday! Participants and fans can follow all of the mushers on the trail by checking the Trail Stats page.

For anyone who wants to join but hasn't yet, you can still get signed up. The race runs through April 30, and new teams can subscribe at any time between now and that date.

Meanwhile, I got the Alaska Native language phrases, vocabulary and place names posted at each checkpoint. My heartfelt thanks to Susan Paskvan, who serves as the native language teacher at the Yukon-Koyukuk School District in Alaska, for her time and efforts in compiling local place names for many of the checkpoints along the trail. I also used... read complete entry

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