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		<title>Trail Breaking Then and Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inimitable Alaskan Episcopal Archbishop Hudson Stuck, who organized the first successful climb of Mount McKinley among other singular achievements, oversaw a far-flung archdiocese that covered much of Alaska. He traveled much of it behind his dog team and authored the &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=791">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Playing Catch-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Martin Buser setting a blazing pace and a small handful just a little behind him, farther back a raft of former champions and high place winners—certainly supremely knowledgeable tacticians—are forming strategies of overtaking the frontrunners &#8211; - &#8211; if &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=788">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Samaritans Strike Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems that some things never go away. PETA, the Humane Society, the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (the usual suspects) are again—or should I say “still”—out to change the animal world for the better &#8211; - &#8211; their &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=785">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Frontrunners Setting a Screaming Pace</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=781</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard for someone like me who battled to make Rohn Roadhouse (as the checkpoint was originally named) in seven days on the first Iditarod, hard to imagine anyone pulling in there in less than 24 hours from the start. &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=781">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Native Corporations Wake Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the coming of white traders to the North in the 1800s, Alaska’s Natives had lived a mixed subsistence and trapping-and-trading economy. That lifestyle virtually required that every household own a dog team. But in the quarter century leading up &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=774">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Triumphful Entry</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=758</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who have been readers of this blog know that after last year’s race I drafted and tendered a proposal to induct Dan Seavey into the Iditarod Hall of Fame. Today at the finish of the Ceremonial Start &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=758">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Off to the Races</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 13:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick note here before I head out to take in the Ceremonial Start and rub shoulders with “The Big Family” (other brothers and sisters of the long trail and their families, helpers, fans, and race supporters/administrators/event putter-oner volunteers). In &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=755">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Big Dance, 40th Anniversary Edition</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=737</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2013 14:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just returned from the grand Musher’s Drawing Banquet. People there from all over, about 2,500 strong. A big part of the fun for me is meeting with old friends who go all the way back to race beginnings. Three &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=737">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Two Young Guns</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted February 27, 2012 When I’m asked, “Who’s your pick to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race?”  I answer the questioner that if he had any idea of the complexities and variables that go into final Iditarod standings, &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=506">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Loose Cannons, Malcontents, and Incompetent Snivelers  (Part II)</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=733</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 13:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though today’s Iditarod races aren’t exactly Nancy-visits-the-farm level experiences, they wouldn’t come anywhere close to offering much in the way of true adventure to the great Indian and Eskimo dog men, and the gold miners, trappers, big game guides and &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=733">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Loose Cannons, Malcontents, and Incompetent Snivelers</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=729</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Iditarod was created by a special breed of mushers for their own kin, dog drivers of a breed attracted to answer a primal call to adventure. The race would give such intrepid types outlet by providing a platform upon &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=729">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Birch</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=720</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 13:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Birch is the firewood of choice here along the old Iditarod Trail, but only for home use. That’s because, in the round, birch never dries, only rots. Year after year it remains wet inside the bark. Birch bark is so &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=720">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ice Cream and Lemonade</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=715</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Soul Trails]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My mother spent her last years here with us near the old Iditarod Trail. But she grew up in a sod house and half dugout on a land claim in New Mexico Territory. She was born at a time when &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=715">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Comments From a Sourdough Viewer</title>
		<link>http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=707</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 14:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Books and Blogs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Perry&#8230;.my interest in Sourdough has been kind of a joke at my house for a while now&#8230;&#8221;you want to watch Sourdough again?&#8221;&#8230;.groans from the the kids and Jenny&#8230;but it was great to find your website and to realize that &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=707">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Proposal to Iditarod Hall of Fame Selectors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hereby submit Dan Seavey for your consideration for induction into the Iditarod Hall of Fame. My perception is that, apart from the late Joe Redington Sr., those already making up the Hall were deemed deserving because of a single &#8230; <a href="http://rodperry.com/blog/?p=702">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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