Monday, March 5, 2012

03 03 - Iditarod ceremonial start

0303 Start

We went downtown today for the ceremonial start to the Iditarod.  You can pay $1000-$1500 to ride in the sled for this ceremonial leg, about 11 miles.  This day was for the crowd and sponsors and the mushers hammed it up for the crowd.  I love to watch the teams get started.  I heard later that they estimated the crowd at 10,000 people.  Anchorage is not really that big and it was really crowded.

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