Pulling together: In the ‘last great race on Earth,’ sled dogs are family Two days before the ceremonial start of the 2015 Iditarod, 78 mushers gathered for a welcome in a hotel conference room in Anchorage, Alaska. In among the sweatshirt, bivy sack and other pre-race swag given to the mushers is a small but very important notebook: the vet book. It is in this notebook that a… 1 min read March 10, 2015 Keep up with Alaska