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Nice place to visit, but I damned sure wouldn't want to live there.

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I doubt the Iditarod is going anywhere. A good friend of mine ran it this year. He said it cost him over $17,000 to enter the race. Yes just to enter the race, they had 38-39 teams so yeah do the math. Then if you the spectator want to get video feed and gps tracking that’s $49 bucks. So not sure how they are going broke. I also watched the iron dog (several of us talking about doing the expedition class) for $3200 bucks is your entry fee. With that yoh get gas and 2 stroke oil everything else on the trail is on you. The gps tracking is free and their video feeds come from individuals at the check points. Kimberly Kay in koyuk is probably the most known because koyuk is triple check point. In short both of these events is what defines Alaska outdoor adventure. So don’t let the guy formerly from Rock Springs Wyoming tell you any different.

> lets make this a little simpler posted so 79S can understand : seldomseensmith if you feel sled dogs are mistreated go too any bar in the evening along the Iditarod trail and let them know your feelings about this race and the sled dogs being mistreated i am sure seldomseensmith they can help you some how. Pete53

Your romantic notions of every village in western Alaska having sled dogs at every house is a noble one. But it’s a false one, for the most part sled dogs have been replaced by snow machines/snogos or as you all in the lower 48 call them snowmobiles in western Alaska. You can go to willow and swing a dead cat and hit 4/5 kennels. The spirit of the Iditarod is being kept alive by individuals living on the road system. Not some rustic villages on Yukon river.

[bleep] off and please go away you PETA loving POS!!

Just like any other troll, if everyone would just quit acknowledging him he'll get tired of being ignored and go away.
Trolls get off on getting people worked up and when it doesn't happen, they get bored and go away.

Why doesn't that work with communists, anarchists, and other social revolutionaries?

Oh I dunno. Keep telling him how worthless he is, that type of person is so liberal and weak they finally realize it and go into depression. Besides its good to vent on a liberal idiot.

He even gave up all the contact info link for sponsors so I went and told all of them what a super job they have done and to keep it up. And quite often email AK air to go back to being a sponsor and quit being PC like they are from Seattle or something

i am not a computer person much ? but if anyone could P.M. me a list of sponsors i would sure send them a wonderful thank you for helping sponsor the Iditarod sled dog race , i have been listening about the race and now watching the race on the computer every day the race is going .started in the early 70`s listening every year , Grandpa Seavey is from the state i live in Minnesota . i hope others feel the same way too ,thank you ,Pete53

thank you, i will do that ,Pete53

PETA - kills 57% of the dogs it takes in and 72% of the cats.

Of the 49,737 dogs and cats PITA received between 1998 and 2019...?

... 41,539 were killed.

Quite an organization... like the NAZI party.




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Almost every musher that's been a target of PETA, none of it made sense.

It equates to online bullying and defamation. They need to be put in check with a class action lawsuit. You can't keep ignoring the sabotage and defamation.

Prime example: A former iditarod musher was targeted over the water dishes. PETA started freaking out, posting all over the internet that the poor dogs were drinking from rusty cans.

Its very common for mushers to use large coffee cans for water bowls. They're plastic lined and no rust forms on the inside of these cans, just on the outside.

But that's what PETA does, they just look at photos or videos on social media, and fkn nit-pick what ever they see. LAZY illogical fkn idiots who have no clue about Alaska.

Another way they get ahold of baseless fodder is through disgruntled dog handlers.

One iditarod musher fired a dog handler for theft. The guy was stealing sht left and right! He's still wanted, but fled the state. He goes to peta and throws out a bunch of slander. PETA gladly posted his lies grievances all over the place.

This makes no sense whatsoever. If there wasn't a trail, the #1 musher would be trudging in front of the team on snowshoes or skis for a large portion of the route. At less than 5 mph in unbroken snow. All the other mushers would be piled up behind the #1 musher. Then it wouldn't be a race.

It would take 25-30 days to get to Nome. People would get lost and dogs would be put at risk.

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