Sledding

One of the greatest tales of heroism ever to come out of the frozen north is the story of the great Serum Run of 1925. When a group of drivers and the stalwart sled dogs fought their way through fifty below zero weather and an 80 mile an hour blizzard to get serum to the inhabitants of Nome that put a halt to the march of Diptheria.

Not only did the name of the drivers remain foremost in the minds of the people. Eskimo Pete Olsen, Leonard Seppala, and Gunnar Kassan, but so did the names of the dogs which led and pulled on the teams, Togo and Scotty, Seppalas two lead dogs, and the most famous of all , Balto the dog which pulled into Nome with Gunnar Kassan. The moment the team halted at the end of their run, Kassan fell into the snow beside his dog and began to pull the ice from Balto's torn and bloody feet. Exhausted, Kasson still paid tribute to his lead dog.

In 1967 was the first Iditarod. The Race that commemorates this famous run