It's 9:45pm. Jan and Bob are about 30 miles out from Iditarod, race mile 405. Now a ghost town, Iditarod was once a bustling community of over 10,000 and was the heart of the Iditarod Mining District. Dog teams hauled supplies and mail IN and hauled gold OUT.
Between 1908 and 1925, about $35 million in gold was taken from this area. At that time, gold was worth around $20 an ounce. Do the math - how many ounces of gold would that be? How many pounds? How many tons? How much is gold worth today? (You will have to look that one up).
Iditarod marks the official half-way point in the race on the southern trail, and whoever gets there first wins the GCI Dorothy G. Page Halfway Award. This year it was Lance Mackey. He received a trophy and $3000 in gold nuggets. Cool!
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Good luck for the rest of the race!
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