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The Idatarod

Date Submitted: 08/06/2003 05:56:31
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 3 pages (877 words)
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The Idatarod Picture this: You are going to travel over one thousand miles across Alaska---by car? by train? by plane? NO!! You are travelling by dogsled - your only companions on this journey will be eleven to fourteen of the most honest, loyal and strong dogs that you can find. For over six grueling months, you and your carefully selected dogs have been training, and now it is up to you and your canine companions. …

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…that slide over the snow. Snow hook: Ancholrs the dog team at rest stops. Made of heavy metal. Brake: Attached to the rear of the sled. Shaped like a claw. Musher stands on it and yells "Whoa!" BIBLIOGRAPHY Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. "Dogsled Races" 1994. "Huskies Hounded", The Economist. March 5, 1994. "Ready, Set, Go!" Ranger Rick., March, 1994. Skorupa, Joe. "Iditarod: The Last Great Race," Popular Mechanics. July, 1993. Ward, Alex . "Man and Dog Vs. Alaska," NY Times Magazine. February 24, 1985.

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