Thursday, March 4, 2010

IDITAROD CHECKPOINT MARCH 04, 2010



Checkpoint News: Daily Updates and Bulletins from the Trail -- An Official Email of the Iditarod
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March 04, 2010
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Time To Pick Your Position

Five Time Iditarod Champion Rick Swenson at Last Year's Musher Banquet after picking his starting position.

The 2010 Musher Drawing Banquet is Sold Out!

It's a full house! Tonight (March 4, 2010) more than 2000 race fans and mushers will fill the Dena'nai Center in Anchorage Alaska. Seventy-one mushers will pull their starting position out of an Alaskan Mukluk. From that point forward each musher will know their position in the 2010 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The Musher Drawing Banquet celebrates the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.  This long standing tradition really is the beginning of IDITAROD XXXVIII.  The Iditarod Insider team will be there covering the gala event… and if you're an insider… you'll get the chance to see great video of the mushers crossing the stage picking their starting positions!

Iditarod Trail Alert…

The latest update from the Iditarod Trail is that there was fresh snow at Finger Lake. Reports at Rainy Pass have been positive, and promising.  Iditarod Trailbreakers are working their way toward the Dalzell Gorge where they will begin filling ruts and making the trail toward Rohn passable.  From Rohn (through the Farewell Burn)  there is more bare ground than snow. There is still very little snow between Nikolai and Unalakleet. Right now the 2010 Iditarod Trail could use more snow. Look for another update on the Checkpoint later this evening.

If You Want To See Iditarod Trail Conditions…

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