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Anchorage is so warm this year it has to import snow for the Iditarod
2016-03-03 02:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Take an already warming planet, stir in a dash of El Nio, and add a splash of melting Arctic ice. Voila! You`ve got a baked Alaska. The state has experienced a warm and wacky winter, with only one-tenth its usual snowfall and temperatures 10 degrees F above average. This lack of snow is especially problematic for a cherished tradition: the Iditarod, Alaska`s annual dogsled race. To avoid the tribulations of slushy mushing, a snow-bereft Anchorage is importing snow for the beginning of the...
Fairbanks to the rescue: Railroad to haul snow to barren Anchorage for Iditarod
2016-03-01 04:05:53| Railroads - Topix.net
A lack of snow in Alaska's biggest city has led to the Alaska Railroad transporting 300 to 350 cubic yards of snow from Fairbanks to downtown Anchorage for use in Saturday's ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and the Fur Rondy's Running of the Reindeer.
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Snow to be Brought in for Iditarod Ceremonial Start and Running of the Reindeer
2016-03-01 02:01:03| Railroads - Topix.net
The Iditarod Sled Dog Race, the Alaska Railroad and Anchorage Fur Rendezvous have partnered together to bring the 300 cubic yards of snow down from Fairbanks to lay on the streets of Anchorage for the Ceremonial Start and the Running of the Reindeer.
Nome's Iditarod and the Lost Continent of Beringia: Alaska's Wild West on the Looney Front, Part 2
2015-10-01 16:20:59| Railroads - Topix.net
After its gold rush days, Nome won everlasting fame as the destination of the original Iditarod dog mushing race, although it was not called that back then. In 1925 a diphtheria epidemic raged in the town and the only way to save the inhabitants from a growing death toll was to get them the antitoxin serum.
Mitch Seavey is first Iditarod musher to reach Ruby
2015-03-12 10:25:58| Wireless - Topix.net
" The two-time Iditarod champion Mitch Seavey was the first musher to reach the checkpoint in Ruby, and an up-and-coming musher has been disqualified. Seavey covered the grueling, 119-mile stretch from Tanana in 18 hours, 35 minutes, arriving in the Ruby checkpoint at 6:13 p.m. Wednesday.
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