Thanks to Walt & Janet Tremer for the photo: taken on the trail outside of Nome, Iditarod 2011
But while I am am gone here are a few places you can follow the Iditarod online:
- http://iditarod.com/
The official Iditarod website. Here is the Race News Center for the 2012 Iditarod. They also have a subscription service to the Iditarod Insider, for a fee you get exclusive coverage. The Iditarod Trail Committee is also on facebook. - Iditablog – News & Commentary from the trail. They have done a great job the last few years of providing fans with insight and updates.
- KNOM on the Trail – Nome radio, they do race coverage from the trail.
- KTUU Anchorage – This Anchorage TV News will have a special section on the web for Iditarod. Check out the website for Iditarod coverage from their reporters. They even flew to Fairbanks and did a nice profile on our kennel.
- Anchorage Daily News – will also have reporters on the trail, and does a very good
- GoMush – for news of all things mushing.
- http://www.cafepress.com/dewclawkennel – for all your Dew Claw logo gear
Also want to take a minute and say Mush Thanks to the Sponsors & members of Team Dew Claw!!
MORE LINKS:
http://mushing.bssd.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=121
Have a great race!
Twitter is another great source of information, although it can feel like opening a firehose. Sometimes you see something that’s just wrong (you can’t believe the number of people who’ve run the Iditarod whose names were somehow deleted from the race history archive) or infuriating (animal rights tweets) or totally irrelevant (urban iditarod), but there are frequently unexpected gems from people or places you would not normally look.
So, I use the Twitter search string “iditarod OR #iditarod”. Leave off the quotes, but the OR must be uppercase or it will be treated like a word you’re searching for.
You can search from the Twitter search page or from a Twitter client. Search support varies a lot between clients but Tweetdeck has pretty fantastic search capabilities so I just stick what that.