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OUR BEAUTIFUL TRAIL LEADER MISTY

It is 8:54 a.m. and 54.8 degrees outside!!!! Snow is all melted and a Robin just landed on my window feeder! Patrick is snoozing in his crate and Junior is at school.

The Last Great Race started for real yesterday:

NINETY FIVE IDITAROD MUSHERS ARE ON THEIR WAY TO NOME

Date: March 2, 2008 at 8:41 pm

WILLOW, ALASKA - (Sunday, March 2, 2008) - The stage was set today in Willow Alaska for what could be the most competitive race in Iditarod Trail history. Ninety five teams left beautiful Willow Lake saying goodbye to thousands of fans who lined up to witness race history; a field that shattered the previous record of 87 teams.

Teams wasted little time, waving to onlookers, forging their way out to the Susitna River, and on to the Iditarod Trail. Six Iditarod Champions (Rick Swenson, Jeff King, Martin Buser, Joe Runyon, Mitch Seavey, and Lance Mackey) were part of this very talented field that included thirty three rookies representing more than one third of the entire procession that is on its way to Nome.

This year eighteen mushers are carrying special tracking devices on their sleds. You can see their progress by logging on to http://www.iditarod.com/ and click “Iditarod Tracker” to see the action unfold in real time.

Posted by Iditarod Staff in Race Coverage


Those "special tracking devices" be GPS transmitters, boys!!!

Name	Checkpoint	Time
1	Gerry Willomitzer	OUT OF Skwentna	03/02 21:25
2	Jeff King	OUT OF Skwentna	03/02 21:39
3	Ramey Smyth	OUT OF Skwentna	03/02 22:57
4	Aliy Zirkle	OUT OF Skwentna	03/02 23:51
5	Kjetil Backen	OUT OF Skwentna	03/03 00:15
6	Scott Smith	OUT OF Skwentna	03/03 00:24
7	Ken Anderson	OUT OF Skwentna	03/03 00:28
8	Rick Casillo	OUT OF Skwentna	03/03 00:29
9	Warren Palfrey	OUT OF Skwentna	03/03 00:59
10	Aaron Burmeister	OUT OF Skwentna	03/03 01:15

go gators, try to win one.