Rachael Scdoris is a dog musher and cross country runner. She was the first legally blind person to complete the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race first ran to Nome in 1973, after two short races on part of the Iditarod Trail in 1967 and 1969.The first year the iditarod ran was in 1973. :)
Mary Shields was one of two women to be the first to participate in the Iditarod Trail Race in 1974, and the first to finish the Iditarod. She placed 23rd then.
There is a town on the iditarod trail named idtarod, so they named the trail after it i guess.
To get from one end of Alaska to another.
It first started in 1973. :)
In the early 1900s the Iditarod trail was used to bring serum to Nome.
It first started in 1973. :)
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was created in 1973.
Aliy Zirkle is a musher who races in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. She races SP Kennel's Red Team and has finished the Iditarod 14 times (2014) finishing in 2nd place three years in a row (2012, 2013, 2014).
Anchorage
The Iditarod Trail was a trail used to transport goods that ran from Seward, passed through Iditarod, then ended in Nome. Iditarod was named after the Iditarod River. In the early 1900s, it saw a boom due to gold mining. After the gold was exhausted, the town became a ghost town.