Eastern
The Iditarod is ran on the northern route on even years. The northern route has more villages along it than the southern route ran on odd years.
they maned the iditarod after a ghost town the race route passes on the northern route, which they run in odd years, rather they run the southern route in even years.
There are 26 checkpoints on each route in the Iditarod. The southern route is taken on odd numbered years(such as this year,2013) and the northern route is taken on even numbered years. I'm not able to give the exact information of where each checkpoint is on both northern and southern routes, but somewhere else on wikianswers(this website).
They run odd years for southern and even years for northern.
2. they run the northern route in odd years, and run the southern route in even years
the iditarod is named after the ghost town iditarod in the northern route.
it was from the ghost town iditarod in the northern route.
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what route will mushers take
There are 26 checkpoints in the Northern route and 29 checkpoints in the Southern route!
In even years, the Iditarod follows the Northern route. The halfway point is between Cripple and Ruby, closer to Ruby.
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