What do Alaska winter gear and spacesuits have in common? A lot, as it turns out. Both of these specialized sets of apparel have features
As of today’s posting, the Iditarod starts in only 42 days–and there are now 43 mushers signed up! It’s exciting to think that these teams
What would it be like for your students to become a musher for a day? Or to transform into the race marshal, a pilot, or
Jon Van Zyle’s official poster for the 2016 Iditarod shows an immense snowy wilderness framed by mountains. A musher crouches over a small fire, which
It’s December, and this Gulf Coast resident is watching with envy from afar as dog teams travel down snowy trails in Alaska and run first-of-the-winter
What do you picture when you think about the Iditarod? If you have never seen this amazing event in person, you rely on photos and
One of the things I love most about the Iditarod is the international flavor present at the event. According to Iditarod Race History, mushers from
Teaching is a great example of a shared journey. Each year is a little bit different. We build kinship and camaraderie with our colleagues and
When my son Andrew was a freshman in high school, he took a course called AP Human Geography that sounded really interesting to me. My
What does it take to prepare for a long mission in an extreme environment? So far in this series, we have compared training for the
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