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Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

  • Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race route
    In Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

    …the dog teams, particularly to Balto, the lead dog of the team that finally reached Nome. In memory of the serum run’s principal musher, Leonhard Seppala, the Iditarod was originally called the Iditarod Trail Seppala Memorial Race. Today’s race commemorates both the serum run and Alaska’s frontier past, and it…

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