You can find lots of great photos on the Official Iditarod site. The Junior Iditarod is off and running right now. Awesome.
Fun Fact:
Despite common usage in annoying commericals or movies, mushers do not say "Mush" to their dogs. One theory as to how this term came to be, is that the French trappers were overheard saying "marche" to their dogs. The term to mush and musher stuck though, and are used to describe someone who runs sled dogs.
Mushers will say, Hike! or All Right! to get the dogs to pull, however, it's not generally needed. The dogs pretty much ALWAYS want to pull. I said, "Ready? All right!" to get my dogs attention and to start in unison.
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Great photos - the Iditarod is such an amazing race :)
Interesting post ahead of mine...
Anyhoo!
I knew the term mush was bogus. We'll blame the French!
Horrible things happen to animals in this world, but let's not tarnish every dog team owner with one brush or blame a valid sport because of a few uncaring humans.
Strengthen the laws for animal cruelty and then go after the ones that are breaking those laws. Reward with positive media attention of the ones that take care of their team of dogs. Maybe get the ones who are guilty banned from participation.
I for one am looking forward to hearing about the Iditarod--my brother and his family lived in Anchorage for several years and loved it!
I'm leaving up all comments on this topic since discussion is always welcome on my blog.
Thank you for your opinions.
First off, I agree with what Catherine said. And secondly, I thought they said 'mush.' Thanks for the fun facts about the sled dogs.
Great photos. Thanks for the history on the word "Mush." I never knew that.
I've left a little something for you at my blog.
What? Mush isn't really used? But Ukon Cornelius used it in Rudolph? How can it not be true? :)
What? Mush isn't really used? But Ukon Cornelius used it in Rudolph? How can it not be true? :)
I love the facts that you give us, and i even enjoy the rants of people who feel they need a pedestal to stand on, when you are just telling us some definitions, that I didn't know. It just makes me realize, without those people in the world I wouldn't appreciate the nice polite people in the world near as much.
Thank you for allowing all views on your blog
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Do you participate in the Iditarod? That's probably a lame question.. but I think of the Iditarod as like the Indy 500 of sled races. Do you have to qualify by having won something prior to it?
Will you be taking photos of it?
It's all so exciting to me!!
How fun! I've always wanted to see a dogsled race. We don't have enough snow here, maybe someday we'll get up north and check out the action.
Thank you for your continued support everyone!
I have never run the Iditarod - you do have to run a number of qualifying races to make sure you don't die out there, and you know how to care for your dogs. But I have handled for the Iditarod and that was an amazing experience!
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