Getting Ready to Hit the Trail

We spent a brief time sledding on the hill in Eagle River yesterday after work and before dance class. It was 17 degrees. We had the hill to ourselves.

Tonight we'll be headed to the Iditarod Musher's Banquet at the new Dena'ina Center in Anchorage. The mushers will pick their bib numbers for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race which begins this weekend.

There are lots of interesting folks signed up to run this year's race. Rebecca and Tess drove into the Iditarod Store in Anchorage last night, after dance class, to pick up our banquet tickets and a couple of race guides (to use for musher autographs). The guide has bios on each musher. Pretty interesting group. We'll be meeting them this evening at the banquet.

Some folks I personally find interesting are Gary Paulsen (author of the Hatchet), DeeDee Jonrowe, Karin Hendrickson (rookie from Chugiak), and Aliy Zirkle (originally from NH).

Usually the musher bios are on http://www.iditarod.com/ so you can read about them there.