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furino and jono July 2nd 2007
furino Good times! Took a helicopter up to Punchbowl glacier to a sled dog kennel where we met our musher Dario. Dario's a nine time Iditarod veteran, and runs the kennel up on the glacier from May - Sept each year. Since his entire life basically revolves around these dogs we learned a ton about them and about the sport in general. When the first Iditarod was in 1973 run it took the winner 21 days to complete, now it's 8 or 9 days! The dogs were incredibly friendly and full of beans (vocal too!). It's hilarious, all they want to do is run. Dario told us sometimes he'll take a few of them and rip around on the snowmobile while they chase him...no photos of that :p
***oh, and by the way, "marjorie" - thanks for the heads up. how about next time you have something to actually validate your comments and knock off the armchair critic act, when's the last time you got off your high horse and saw things first hand? stop wasting my time***
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