Get to Official Race Info at the Iditarod site: CURRENT STANDINGS 2002 MUSHERS Mrs. Holmes' Trip Itinerary

DAILY ITINERARY Iditarod Education Sat Feb 23 Fly to Anchorage and Stay at B & B for next week Sun Feb 24 Museums for Native culture Mon Feb 25 Drive a dogsled out in the bush Tues Feb 26 Native museums and artwork Wed Feb 27 Teacher Program / Field Trip Includes: Pre-race vet checks at Iditarod HQ Plettner kennels Thur Feb 28 Teacher Program & Musher's Banquet Includes: presentations by teachers presentations by Dick Mackey presentations by an Iditarod champion musher IDITA-RIDER LUNCHEON with all of the mushers Lunch with Al Hardman, the musher I'm going to ride with MUSHERS BANQUET in the evening Fri Mar 1 Teacher Program Race Marshal explains function of marshal & judges Special Guest Speakers, including champion musher Susan Butcher Idita-Rider meeting Idita-Support Group dinner Sat Mar 2 Iditarod Start Ride as Idita-Rider Sun Mar 3 Restart of Race, Fly to Skwentna Stay in Skwentna Native Villages and Iditarod Checkpoint Coverage Mon Mar 4 Fly to Rohn, Nikolai, Farewell Burn Stay at Takooska House, McGrath Tues Mar 5 Fly to Nikolai, Rohn volunteer to help with musher meals Stay in McGrath Wed Mar 6 McGrath all day volunteer, visit school Stay in McGrath Thur Mar 7 Fly to Takotna, Ophir, Cripple stay in Ruby Fri Mar 8 Ruby all day stay in Unalakleet Sat Mar 9 Grounded in Unalakleet on a windy day stay in Unalakleet Sun Mar 10 Another windy day in Unalakleet stay in Unalakleet Mon Mar 11 Unalakleet to Nome Visit Unk school Stay in Nome Tues Mar 12 Interact in Nome all day first mushers arrived Stay in Nome Wed Mar 13 Nome greet mushers throughout the day Martin Buser's swearing-in ceremony Thurs Mar 14 Nome greet mushers watch clouds roll in Fri Mar 15 Nome greet mushers watch blizzard go to museum Sat Mar 16 Nome greet mushers Sun Mar 17 Nome greet back-of-the-pack mushers go to double wedding ceremony go to musher's banquet Mon Mar 18 Back to Vermont fly from Nome to Anchorage to Seattle to Detroit to Hartford. catch up on sleep reflect on this incredible journey Mrs. Holmes

Webspace for Mrs. Holmes Iditarod 2002 project was provided courtesy of ValleyNet of Norwich, Vermont. ValleyNet is also the webhost for the Marion Cross School website Funding for Mrs. Holmes trip has also been provided by The Friends of Hanover and Norwich Schools, a group of citizens which provides funding for a variety of special extra activities for the local schools. Read more about them HERE.

Links to pages WITHIN this website:
 | Checkpoints and Trail Info  | Idita-Rider  | History of The Race  | The Iditarod in Mrs. Holmes' Classroom  | About Mrs. Holmes  | Mrs. Holmes' Itinerary  | 

Links to pages OUTSIDE OF this website:
 | Marion Cross School  | Iditarod Official Website  | Dogsled.com  | Alaska Superstation - Iditarod  | YaWoof!  | AlaskaCam  | Iditarod Resources  | 

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