Report Content.....A-4 Report Content -- Amplification.....A-5 Enclosure B -- COMMANDERâS OPERATIONAL REPORT (OPREP).....B-1
It's a competition that pits one dog driver, called a musher, and a team of dogs not only against other racers but against the (often cruel) forces of Â­Mother Nature. Named for a town in Alaska, the race ceremonially sets off from downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on the first Saturday in March.
Joe Redington, Senior (February 1, 1917 â June 24, 1999) was an American dog musher and kennel owner, who is best known as the  Father of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race , a long distance sled dog race run annually from the Anchorage area to Nome, Alaska.