2006 Iditarod Team

Tonight's email will be a short one, as bed is absolutely calling me tonight. Knowing, I guess, it will be a long time before I sleep on anything near as comfortable again!

Anyway, I did want to quickly announce the 16 dogs that will make up my 2006 Iditarod team.

They are - in ALPHABETICAL order -
	Dog	Status	DOB/ Age	Sex	Finished
	Batdog  Son of Iditarod Finishers Odie & Kaylinn	Rookie	3/13/02 4 yrs (next week)	M
	Crunchie Son of Iditarod Finisher Grover	2 Time Iditarod Veteran	6/6/01 4 yrs	M	Iditarod 2004 Finisher
	Dasher Daughter of Iditarod Finishers Butch & Kara	Iditarod 2005 Veteran	12/21/01 4 yrs	F
	Draco Son of Butch	5 Time Iditarod Veteran	11/5/97 8 yrs	M	2 Time Finisher
	Hector	2 Time Iditarod Veteran	8/28/01 4 yrs	M	Iditarod 2004 Finisher
	Herman Hector's brother	2 Time Iditarod Veteran	8/28/01 4 yrs	M	Iditarod 2004 Finisher
	Junior Son of Grover	Rookie	7/14/02 3 yrs	M
	Kara Daughter of Iditarod Finisher Striker	2 Time Iditarod Veteran	7/27/99 6 yrs	F	Iditarod 2004 Finisher
	Loki Son of Striker Kara's brother	4 Time Iditarod Veteran	7/27/99 6 yrs	M	Iditarod 2004 Finisher
	Moses	2 Time Iditarod Veteran	1/4/00 6 yrs	M	Iditarod 2004 Finisher
	Odie Son of Striker, Kara & Loki's brother	3 Time Iditarod Veteran	7/27/99 6 yrs	M	Iditarod 2004 Finisher
	Olena	2 Time Iditarod Veteran	7/28/00 5 yrs	F
	Skor Son of Grover, Crunchie's brother	Iditarod 2005 Veteran	6/6/01 4 yrs	M
	Snickers Daughter of Grover, Crunchie & Skor's sister	Iditarod 2005 Veteran	6/6/01 4 yrs	F
	Sprite Daughter of Butch	Iditarod 2005 Veteran	7/1/01 4 yrs	F
	Surge Son of Butch	4 Time Iditarod Veteran	12/27/98 7 yrs	M	2 Time Finisher

I will try and write a little more in the morning, but just to let everyone know that the final, final decisions (which I went back and forth on numerous times) were done on the basis of experience over youth.

BTW - my Ceremonial Start team consisted of :

	Kara - Dasher
	Loki - Odie
	Herman - Hector
	Draco - Barq
	Junior - Crunchie
	Batdog - Q

Off to bed..

Karen

Photos by
June Price

Pictures from the Ceremonial Start

Photos by
Mary Curtis

Map of the Ceremonial Start Route