Every year, tucked deep inside a musher’s sled bag is a special packet of promotional materials. Included in the packet are letters from students around the world.
This year, a record 631 letters arrived in Nome. These letters/projects were brought to Anchorage. They were placed into envelopes and placed with the other promotional materials that are required to be carried in a musher’s sled bag during the race. (See FOR MUSHERS for details about required items in the sled.)
After the race, the letters/projects will be sent back to the schools and home school families that participated in the project.
*Please note, Leo did attempt to contact all of the participants in this project. Some of the email address that were sent to him bounced. If you did not hear from him, your project may still have been in a musher’s sled. So, please be patient with Leo. He does most of this project by himself. A list of participants IS NOT available to me nor is it placed on the website. Leo has the only list and he will be in touch. You can also try contacting Leo in Nome using contact information you got when you began this project. Be sure to send Leo a big thank you for his time, effort, and energy!
It will take some time for the projects to reach the participants after the race. Remember to be patient!
You can learn more about this project by clicking the following link. Start thinking now about getting on board a musher’s sled for the 2010 Iditarod.
Just ‘Spinning some D’tails”
Libby
Watch this slide show to see more pictures of the project.
8 Comments
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Hi Libby myname is natalie i hred you befor you are so cuet i like learn a bot you your friend natalie.
My teacher put together a lesson plan on the Iditarod.I enjoy learning about how the mother of the Iditarod was Dorathy G. Page.We are learning about the Iditarod and Jr.Iditarod. I picked a musher named Deedee Jonrowe.Did you know she is in 13th place.
love,
Alex at Winter Park elem. school. 3/18/09
sounds like you’re enjoying the race. Thanks for writing.
you are cute. do you ever get lost in the Iditarod?is it hard running in the race?i have a dog to.its a golden.
from april
Sometimes mushers get lost because they miss a trail marker or because there is a storm and the markers are hidden by the snow or blowing snow. Running any race can be hard. Dogs are well trained and ready to race before the race begins, making it much easier because they are used to running and pulling the sled. The dogs are in condition. They are strong and muscular. They are well trained and so is the musher.
Libby, how do you send letters to the iditarod
musher’s anyway? Your friend Conner.
Hi Conner, If you go to: http://iditarodblogs.com/zuma/author/gypsy/ and scroll down- you’ll come to an article Gypsy wrote about writing to mushers. It should give you the information you need. Thanks for writing
Thank you to Rachael Scdoris and her wonderful dogsled team for making the classes’ dream of travelling along the Iditarod come true. We are very honored and proud to be a part of history through Rachael’s incredible journey. Thank you to Mr Leo Rasmussen and his team of volunteers for organizing such a great educational experience. The Iditarod has given the class a chance to learn about Alaska’s climate, beautiful landscape and terrain, culture, integration of mathematics through time, distance, and temperature, and how to take a story about the Great Serum Run and make it reality through this year’s event. As an educator for ten years, this is without a doubt the greatest lesson we have ever delivered. Our third graders will remember this amazing event forever. Thank you, Denny Quinn, Chartiers Valley Intermediate School, Pittsburgh, PA
THANK YOU for following the race!
I think you are a smart dog
I think it’s really cool that mushers get letters from students during the race. If I was running the letters would cheer me up for sure on a cold day.
The letters in the trail mail aren’t to the musher driving the sled. The Trail Mail is symbolic of how the sled dogs used to bring mail to the villages in Alaska. Zuma.