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Kimberly Henneman and Debbie Hadlock had the privilege of working with some of the world’s most versatile and relentless athletes in March. These athletes stand about three feet high, are covered in fur and have a drive and endurance that takes them to some of the world’s cruelest, most unforgiving…

The Iditarod dog sled race is a 1,049 mile trek across the grueling terrain of Alaska that starts in Anchorage, ends in Nome and has been completed by fewer people than a climb to the peak of Mount Everest.That’s what Karen E. Land told children at the Ogdensburg Public Library…

Pat Moon grew up in Chicago. He lives in Park Ridge. Subzero winters and brutal snowstorms are nothing new to him.Still, none of that could prepare him for the conditions he faces as a musher — a professional dog sled racer.Read more here:http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110415/news/704159959/

Life is like being a sled dog; unless you are the lead dog, the view doesn’t change much.Iditarod musher Kelly Maixner, a Beach native, had that message for students at Century High School Friday.Read the story here:http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_5ef81e86-67ab-11e0-8c10-001cc4c03286.html

Eighteen mushers left Kotzebue for Noorvik on Thursday afternoon, thankful the last major sled-dog race of the season is still able to offer prize money.Read more here:http://www.adn.com/2011/04/14/1810929/kobuk-440-gets-going.html

Trent Herbst has been teaching fourth grade at the Community School each of the five years he has been competing in the annual Iditarod dogsled race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. On March 10, the day before the Community School Auction, Herbst sped with his dog team into the ghost…

Kobuk 440, the state’s longest mid-distance sled-dog race, kicks off tomorrow afternoon in Kotzebue, with a field of 17 mushers and dozens of four-legged athletes scheduled to race.Read more about the race here:http://www.thearcticsounder.com/article/1115kobuk_440_dogsled_race_ready_to_roll_across

For the last 15 years, 7th-graders at North Middle School in Great Falls have teamed up for their own version of the Iditarod, the famous Alaska-based sled dog race.Check out their story and video here:http://www.krtv.com/news/north-middle-school-students-race-in-iditarod-/

Did you know there’s a big group of “mushers” in Tampa Bay?What started out as a Siberian Husky social and rescue group morphed into a full-fledged club where dog sledding is the focus of the fun.Read more about the club here and check out the video here:http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/dpp/news/local/pinellas/for-these-sled-dogs-no-snow-needed-04122011

For those of you who couldn’t fit the live broadcast into your schedules, you can listen to the archived podcast here:http://www.myyukonlife.com/archived-shows/ or on iTunes.