Downtown Anchorage is abuzz this evening: First Friday Art Walk, the Opera, David Copperfield, and the really big deal - the Night Before the Start of Iditarod. Hoards of tourists are in town. The restaurants are jammed. All of the side streets are cordoned off and snow is being trucked in. The side streets are the pre-start staging areas for the 80 dog teams and over one thousand dogs.
So, tomorrow morning will be a total blast. A cacophony of 1000 excited barking dogs, nervous mushers, edgy dog handlers, tourists in their brand new winter finery, and scruffy locals (I would be one of those). It has to be seen to be believed.
GCI is a leading race sponsor - we provide the telecommunications, tons of dog handlers, Iditarod Air Force pilots (my boss, Richard has been flying straw and dog food out to the Bush for the past two weeks), the occasional Iditarod Musher (our Corporate Counsel ran and finished last year's race), and we underwrite the Dorothy Page Halfway Prize - $5,000 in gold nuggets and a trophy.
Speaking of the Halfway Prize trophy, I took the picture below today. The trophy was sitting in a box in David's office. He's getting ready to fly out with the trophy and the gold!!!!
9:27:37 PM 
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