To commemerate the serem run to Alaska with Balto AND Togo. This race honors those dogs and all the people involed in saving Nome from Diptheria.
The first Iditarod race to Nome started March 3, 1973.
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because she and Joe Redington started the whole idea of the Iditarod by Alyssa Rasmussen
he started in 2001
It first started in 1973. :)
i done no when she started it do you i am confused! !?!?!?!?!?!?!?
The father of the iditarod is Joe Redington and the mother is Dorothy Page:)
It first started in 1973. :)
At a time when dog mushing was fading, a man that lived in Knik, Alaska had the idea of a dog mushing race from Knik to Nome. His name was Joe Redington Sr. often called the father of the Iditarod. He started the Iditarod Sled Dog Race in 1973.
In 1973 Actually the first race to Nome was held that year,the first actuall race was in 1967 and i ran across this Q trying to find where it started and ended,all I know is that it was shorter than the present day race.
the iditarod is named after the ghost town iditarod in the northern route.
Jake Berkowitz started to train for the Iditarod at the age of 18 in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan