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		<title>Vampires</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was out walking close-by the old Iditarod Trail, with the goal of getting this new bionic hip of mine operational enough by fall to be able to pack into my backcountry haunts in quest of a &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=697">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Thoroughfare of the North: River of History and Legend</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Book Trails]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Were a raven to lift off from the tidal flats at the head of Southeastern Alaska’s Lynn Canal, point his beak due east and catch a thermal updraft to carry him high above the intervening mountains, his flight would take &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=689">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>TRAILBREAKERS News Flash!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We thought we were sold out, but a few have been found. The last remaining copies of my first edition of  TRAILBREAKERS Pioneering Alaska’s Iditarod (Blazing the Last Great Gold Rush Trail in North America) are available while they last &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=674">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Snow to Our Kiesters; Will Winter Ever End?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 13:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life’s sure tough here along the old Iditarod Historic Trail. Al Gore’s world might be warming somewhere, but certainly not in these parts. Here it is April 7th, the day before Easter, and word just came that as of a &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=684">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Delayed Shovels, Flattened Digs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here along our section of the old Historic Iditarod Trail we came oh, so close to experiencing our all-time record winter snowfall. Just going by memory of what I’ve read, the all-time, set in the mid-1950s, was a skiff over &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=678">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Strident Do-Gooders to the Rescue</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=668</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lately I have posted stories of escapes from going through river ice while running the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Obviously the dogs, being in it with the driver, experienced those narrow escapes at the same time. When running such &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=668">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>“Insect”</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=664</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 13:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1974, just days before the second Iditarod Race, I picked up a well-conditioned swing dog. Several hundred miles into the race, I’d rue that acquisition. Today, I can’t recall the dog’s name when I got him, but by &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=664">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nome—The Golden Key (part VI)</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=653</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of even the most avid fans of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, not many know that Nome was not always part of the race plan. In this series I’ve been telling how it happened that we have an Anchorage-to-Nome &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=653">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nome—The Golden Key (part V)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the six years of pre-Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race evolution of ideas and planning, Nome was not the end destination. This continuing series tells part of the little-known story of Nome’s last-minute inclusion. The full story may be found &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=648">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nome—The Golden Key (part IV)</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=645</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not one in ten thousand of even the most avid race fans has a clear and complete understanding about beginnings of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. For instance, how did it come to be that the race ends in &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=645">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Celts</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=639</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Nome—The Golden Key (part III)</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=634</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, senior editorial writer for the Anchorage Daily News Frank Gerjevik, and I reflected on Iditarod’s early days. Frank commented, “You know, Rod, everyone who came into it after its formative years seems to have the mindset that it’s always &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=634">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nome—The Golden Key (part II)</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=632</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 03:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think you know all about how the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was born and drew its first breath? Not many, even back in the day, were privy to the behind-the-scenes, inside story. And today, I daresay that not one &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=632">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nome: The Golden Key</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=629</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think you have the straight scoop about how the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race began? Think you know all about those fateful times when the event desperately struggled for birth and its first breath? Even back in the day, not &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=629">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Poor Boy Race and Broke Racers</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=622</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of today’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race fans did not come into their fanaticism until the contest had become a well-funded, slick, international spectacle. Therefore it is foreign to them to think of the race ever being a seat-of-the-pants, &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=622">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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