Meet the mushers of the 2017 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race

Friday, March 3, 2017 [Alaska News]( [Obituaries]( [Politics]( [Outdoors]( [Opinions]( [Sports]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Meet the mushers of the 2017 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race]( From #2 Ryan Redington all the way to #73 Kristy Berington, here's a roundup of the competitors in the Last Great Race. [Tegan Hanlon]( [Alaska Dispatch News Iditarod Newsletter]( [Iditarod co-founder's grandson will be the first on the race trail]( Ryan Redington, grandson of Iditarod co-founder Joe Redington Sr., will be the first musher on the trail. Defending champion Dallas Seavey and his father, Mitch Seavey, will start two spots apart. [Stephan Wiebe]( [When will the 2017 Iditarod start? (And answers to 14 other race questions)]( With just days to go before the 45th annual Iditarod, here are the answers to a few questions about how the race works and what we might expect this year. [Tegan Hanlon]( [Mud, felt, ribbon: The most coveted Fur Rondy pins were made by hand]( From 1963 to 1966, Sylvia Butcher helped fashion hundreds of pins out of clay collected from the beach cliff of Point Woronzof. [Suzanna Caldwell]( [Here's what's happening this weekend for Fur Rondy 2017]( From Running of the Reindeer to the Iditarod ceremonial start, some of the biggest Rondy events are this weekend. Alaska Dispatch News [Alaska lawmakers get big hike in expense payments, thanks to the feds]( [Nathaniel Herz]( [Western Alaska fish plant won't open again this year]( [Lisa Demer]( [2 survive plane’s emergency ditching, sinking off Ketchikan]( [Chris Klint]( [Person found dead after fire in Galena home]( [Chris Klint]( [Trump administration seeks deep cuts from NOAA's budget]( Steven Mufson, Jason Samenow, Brady Dennis, The Washington Post © 2016 Alaska Dispatch Publishing. All rights reserved. This email was sent to {EMAIL} [why did I get this?]( [unsubscribe from this list]( [update subscription preferences]( Alaska Dispatch · 300 W. 31st Ave. · Anchorage, AK 99503 · USA