Photo archive for March 12, 2008

Musher Brent Beck, left, smiles after drawing the first starting position in the GCI Open North American Championship during registration Wednesday evening, March 12, 2008, in the Westmark Gold Room. Twenty-two mushers will compete in the race, which starts Friday at 1 p.m. on Second Avenue downtown. Alaska Dog Mushers Association race marshal Mike McCowan holds up Beck’s first position draw at right.

Becca Rorabaugh climbs a hill on the second day of competition during the U.S. Junior Olympics Cross Country Skiing Championships at Kincaid Park in Anchorage on Wednesday, March 12, 2008.

Lance Mackey gets a kiss from one of his dogs, Handsome, after winning the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Wednesday, March 12, 2008 in Nome.

Lance Mackey talks with reporters at the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome early Wednesday March 12, 2008. Mackey won his second consecutive Iditarod, completing the 1,100-mile journey across Alaska in just under nine and a half days.

Lance Mackey sits with one of his dogs, Handsome, after winning the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome early Wednesday March 12, 2008. Mackey won his second consecutive Iditarod, completing the 1,100-mile journey across Alaska in just under nine and a half days.

Mary Hanson

Alice Jordan

Last summer on one of our little road trips, we went to Donnelly Dome on the Richardson Highway, south of Delta Junction. The view was beautiful and the moose was just begging to have his picture taken.

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