One of the great Alaskan adventures is happening now — the Iditarod sled dog race is more than 1,000 miles long, crossing the Alaska Range and ending in Nome.  Here’s the official Iditarod website and an Iditablog, too, as well as the Anchorage Daily News coverage.  I’ve been to Nome when I was in the Arctic Chamber Orchestra in high school, and have a snapshot of the burled arch that forms the finish line of the race and some of the frozen Bering Sea.  Most of the time it seems like growing up in Alaska was much like growing up anywhere else, and then I look at the current weather forecast for Fairbanks and think perhaps it was slightly different.  I certainly remember going to lots of sled dog races.  Don’t you??