March 1, 2011 shop online at www.broadcasteronline.com Page 7 Home Country ‘Seven Dog Slim’ hits the trail This Saturday, I’ll dig around in the closet and pull out an especially large, puffy, gold-colored down parka. It’s stained here and there, and the zipper hasn’t worked since 1985, but the toggles and loops still hold it together. It was made for me by a special lady back in 1972, when a bunch of half-frozen idiots got together to plan a very long, cold camping trip known as the Iditarod Sled Dog Race across a thousand miles of Alaska. Hopefully, it’ll be cold enough here for me to wear the parka once again. because my thoughts will be thou- sands of miles away in Anchorage with men and women and sleds and dogs and pickup trucks with dog boxes on the back. On the first Saturday in March, since the first one in 1973, the longest race of its kind will begin once again, and part of me will be there, just as it has been for nearly 40 years now. 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