Alaska

Iditarod Dog-Sled Race Altered Due To Altered Climate

Yet another sad sign of the times...

Citing a warming climate
and sprawling development, officials with the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog
Race said they were implementing permanent logistical changes that in
recent years have become the norm for the March event.

The ceremonial start for the race in Anchorage, Alaska will go only
11 miles-- seven miles shorter than it usually is--and according to the
Los Angeles Times, will be done on trucked in snow.

The trucking in of the snow is kinda funny if you think about it.
Using a dwindling precious resource to truck in another dwindling
resource, the cause of which is the dwindling resource used to truck in
the dwindling resource.

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 11:06pm. categories [ ]