How Technology and Climate Change Are Transforming America's Wildest Dog Sled Race
by Ian Graber-Stiehl on Earther, shared by Barry Petc from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#4BYAA)
The Iditarod is at a crossroads. The thousand-mile sled dog race through Alaska is bound as much by tradition as by the rigging between dog-sledders, or mushers, and their dog teams, who must lead each other through some of North America's wildest land. It's the sort of tradition one would expect to fade into legend,"