Snow hooks are necessary to hold the team when the musher needs to check on a dog or a trail. This is the hook Joe Redington Sr. used. How much longer do we have to wait. G.B. Jones demonstrates for the musher, Chuck King. This dog is ready to run the Iditarod.
Dog handler plays with the dogs while they wait their turn.
These dogs are ready to go to the starting chute. Restart at Willow Sense the excitement of the dogs leaving the chute. Listen to the announcer tell about the musher Hear the dogs as they start the race.