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Sled dog racing (sometimes termed dog sled racing) is a winter dog sport most popular in the Arctic regions of the United States, Canada, Russia, Greenland and some European countries. It involves the timed competition of teams of sled dogs that pull a sled with the dog driver or musher standing on the runners. The team completing the marked course in the least time is judged the winner.
A sled dog race was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York and again at the Olympics in Oslo, but it did not gain official event status.
Sled dogs, known also as sleighman dogs, sledge dogs, or sleddogs, are a highly trained dog type that are used to pull a dog sled, a wheel-less vehicle on runners, over snow or ice, by means of harnesses and lines.
Sled dog races include "sprint" races over relatively short distances of 4 to 100 miles, mid-distance races from 100 to 300 miles, or long-distance races of 300 to over 1,000 miles (Iditarod). Sprint races frequently are two or three-day events with heats run on successive days with the same dogs over the same course. Mid-distance races are continuous events of 100 to 300 miles. (These categories are informal and may overlap to a certain extent.) Long-distance races may be continuous or stage races, in which participants run a different course each day, usually from a central staging location.
http://www.alaskapublic.org/ How long does the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race take to finish? Where does it go? What's with all those dogs? Alaska Public Media answers all of your questions about the most popular sporting event in Alaska. Video Eric Keto Kaysie Ellingson Story John Norris Eric Keto Music “brown&gold;” by airtone http://ccmixter.org/files/airtone/23579 “Brass Beat” by Blake http://ccmixter.org/files/blakeht/31638 “Words of Gratitude Soars Heart of Eye” by FACELESSIWONDER http://ccmixter.org/files/FACELESSIWONDER/42779 Photos Frank K. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anchorage_and_Chugach_Mountains.jpg W. D. Harney http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bird's-eye_View_of_Nome_Alaska_-_1907.jpg D. Sikes http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_fog_and_Alaska_Ran...
The 40th Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was won earlier this week in Nome, Alaska. Dallas Seavey, 25, bested both his father and his grandfather with his team of nine dogs, becoming the youngest musher ever to win the nearly 1,000-mile race across the Alaskan wilderness. De Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is een jaarlijks terugkeerde sledehondenrace in Alaska (VS). Het staat bekend als "The last great race". De race start op de eerste zaterdag van maart en gaat van Anchorage naar Nome over ruim 1150 mijl (1700 km). Het record staat op circa 9 dagen. Niet alleen is de lengte een uitdaging, ook de kou (een gevoelstemperatuur van -75 C is niet vreemd) en het weer (sneeuwstormen, te veel sneeuw, te weinig sneeuw, etc) of slechte condities van de route (rivieren waar het ijs weg is, zeeijs dat a...
The 2014 Iditarod trail includes some of the toughest mushing in the history of the race, veterans said. Especially early along the trail, mushers were battered and bruised on snowless ground. Four-time winner Jeff King shot this footage using a helmet cam between Rainy Pass, in the Alaska Range, and the Rohn checkpoint on Monday, March 3. The video was provided to the Anchorage Daily News (adn.com/Iditarod) by Iditarod Insider (www.iditarod.com.) The talk of the trail this year, it's one of the first-ever looks at what a musher sees while crossing some of the trickiest corners of the 1,000-mile race. Full Iditarod coverage: http://www.adn.com/iditarod. Follow: http://www.twitter.com/IditarodLive for fresh photos and video from the trail Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/anchoragedailyn...
Take a tour through Anchorage, Alaska, from the sled of two-time Iditarod champion Mitch Seavey and Idita-Rider John Radtke during the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Saturday, March 1, 2014.
Enjoy Alaska's world famous Iditarod event with this video. Sled dogs in their cute booties run through the snow with the excited screaming of the crowd. The Iditarod is held on the first Saturday of March in Anchorage, Alaska.
Anchorage hosts the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race Saturday - previewing the official start of the race to Nome Sunday. (Mar. 6) Subscribe for more Breaking News: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Get updates and more Breaking News here: http://smarturl.it/APBreakingNews The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. AP’s commitment to independent, comprehensive journalism has deep roots. Founded in 1846, AP has covered all the major news events of the past 165 years, providing high-quality, informed reporting of everything from wars and elections to championship games and royal weddings. AP is the largest and most trusted source of independent news and...
The competitive portion of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race has begun. Several mushers are trying to dethrone defending champion Lance Mackey, who has won four times in a row. The winner will get $50,400 and a new truck. (March 7)
A party atmosphere swirled around Alaska's largest city at the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Saturday, when 67 mushers and more than 1,000 dogs set their sights for Nome. (March 8)
http://discovery.com/iditarod Across frozen rivers, barren tundra, mountains and thick forest in freezing temperatures, this grueling 1,150 mile race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska puts mushers and their dog teams through the ultimate test of human and animal teamwork and endurance. Filmed in March 2008, TOUGHEST RACE ON EARTH: IDITAROD will tell its stories through the eyes of the men and women who dared to take on the ultimate test of human and animal teamwork and endurance. The intense preparation and training of race veterans and rookies alike show what it takes to compete not only against each other, but also Mother Nature.
Travel from Anchorage to Rainy Pass Music Song: So High Artist: Ghost Loft
03/16/2010 Lance Mackey won the Iditarod of 2010 for his fourth consecutive win!!! Pulling into Nome at exactly 14:59 (2:59 PM) AKDT, Lance Mackey . 03/16/2010 Lance Mackey won the Iditarod of 2010 for his fourth consecutive win!!! Pulling into Nome at exactly 14:59 (2:59 PM) AKDT, Lance Mackey . 03/16/2010 Lance Mackey won the Iditarod of 2010 for his fourth consecutive win!!! Pulling into Nome at exactly 14:59 (2:59 PM) AKDT, Lance Mackey . 03/16/2010 Lance Mackey won the Iditarod of 2010 for his fourth consecutive win!!! Pulling into Nome at exactly 14:59 (2:59 PM) AKDT, Lance Mackey .
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Watch the coverage from the 2009 Alaska's Iditarod Sled Dog Race. JJ Keller Sponsored mushers Dallas and Mitch Seavey share their insights.
You can’t compare it to any other competitive event in the world! A race covering 1000 miles of the roughest, most beautiful terrain Mother Nature has to offer. She throws jagged mountain ranges, frozen river, dense forest, desolate tundra and miles of windswept coast at the mushers and their dog teams. Add to that temperatures far below zero, winds that can cause a complete loss of visibility, the hazards of overflow, long hours of darkness and treacherous climbs and side hills, and you have the Iditarod. A race extraordinaire, a race only possible in Alaska.
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a Max Kolonko 2007 documentary on world's largest sled dog race CLOSED CAPTIONED English SUPPORT MaxTV! http://maxkolonko.com/main/mmk/?p=1106
You don't have to whip my hide
I'd love to take you for a ride
I need affection, drink, and food
You don't have to yell out rudely
Absolutely not
'Cause I'm a sled dog
Don't tether me to a pole
Put something in my bowl
I'm a sled dog
I'm your sled dog
10 or 12 degrees below
I'm happy trudging through the snow
I'll enter any chariot race
You can see the pride on my face
I'll get us through the fog
I'm a sled dog
I'll take you for a ride
You don't have to whip my hide
Never tether me to the pole
I'm a free flying soul
I'm a sled dog
I'm your sled dog
Sled dog