2024 Iditarod Begins with Ceremonial Start in Anchorage

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2024 Iditarod Begins with Ceremonial Start in Anchorage
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The 2024 Iditarod kicks off Saturday with a ceremonial start in Anchorage followed by an official race start in Willow on Sunday. The mushers start getting their teams ready downtown early Saturday. Then, starting at 10 a.m., they set off, one-by-one every couple minutes from Fourth Avenue near D Street. The untimed run through Anchorage takes them down city streets and onto the trail system, ending at Campbell Airstrip. After the ceremonial start, mushers truck their dog teams north for the official start at 2 p.m. on Willow Lake.

The 2024 Iditarod kicks off Saturday with a ceremonial start in Anchorage followed by an official race start in Willow on Sunday. The mushers start getting their teams ready downtown early Saturday. Then, starting at 10 a.m., they set off, one-by-one every couple minutes from Fourth Avenue near D Street. The untimed run through Anchorage takes them down city streets and onto the trail system, ending at Campbell Airstrip.

After the ceremonial start, mushers truck their dog teams north for the official start at 2 p.m. on Willow Lake

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