Rainy Pass Checkpoint

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What happens at Rainy Pass Checkpoint – Iditarod Trail? Here, nestled between mountain peaks, sits Pontilla lake – a large frozen expanse that’s perfect for landing ski-planes. Above the shoreline to the east is a small sprawl of wooden cabins called Rainy Pass Lodge, our hosts for Iditarod. One cabin is used for behind-the-scenes checkpoint operations, where one woman has earned a reputation for being the checkpoint saint. Linda Peterson from Seattle, has volunteered fourteen of her nineteen races as a checker at Rainy Pass. Perhaps no one knows better than her what it takes to make this checkpoint run. To topical subject [Click Here]

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News from Iditarod Teacher on the Trail™, Heidi Sloan…. Early this morning while mushers were traveling with their dogs through Finger Lake and Rainy Pass, I waited with a group of veterinarians, trail volunteers, communications people, media reporters, and others to jump on a plane and leave Anchorage. We flew to the community of McGrath. If you look at the Iditarod Trail map, you can see how many miles we flew. I was excited to then fly in a smaller bush plane to Nikolai, a checkpoint just past Rohn. Read about Heidi’s visit to Nikolai [Click Here]

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