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Appropriate Technology Lessons from the Yukon Quest

  • February 13, 2013
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The Yukon Quest dogsled race came mushing through Dawson last week on its annual run from Whitehorse, Yukon, to Fairbanks, Alaska, and it lived up to its billing as one of the biggest events on Dawson’s winter social calendar. The Quest is considered second only to the Iditarod in prestige, and I’ve heard tell locally that some mushers consider it the more challenging race. It covers 1,000 miles of mostly empty country in about 9 intense, sleep-deprived days, with fewer checkpoints than the Iditarod trail. Read more here: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/blogs/appropriate-technology-lessons-from-the-yukon-quest

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