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  2. Girdwood, Anchorage, Alaska - Wikipedia

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    Girdwood is a resort town within the southern extent of the Municipality of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located near the end of the Turnagain Arm of Cook Inlet , Girdwood lies in a valley in the southwestern Chugach Mountains , surrounded by seven glaciers feeding into a number of creeks, which either converge within the valley or ...

  3. Alyeska Resort - Wikipedia

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    Alyeska Resort is a ski resort in the Girdwood area of Anchorage, Alaska, approximately 30 miles (48 km) from downtown Anchorage. Mount Alyeska is part of the Chugach mountain range and the Alyeska Resort is the largest ski area in the state.

  4. Goat Mountain (Alaska) - Wikipedia

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    Goat Mountain is a 6,450-foot (1,966 m) mountain summit located in the Chugach Mountains, in Anchorage Municipality in the U.S. state of Alaska.The peak is situated in Chugach National Forest at the head of Glacier Creek Valley, 30 mi (48 km) east-southeast of downtown Anchorage, and 8 mi (13 km) north-northeast of the Alyeska Resort and Girdwood area.

  5. Iron Dog - Wikipedia

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    The Iron Dog or Iron Dog Race, [1] originally known as the Iron Dog Gold Rush Classic and between 2000 and 2009 for sponsorship reasons as the Tesoro Iron Dog, is an off-road snowmobile race across Alaska, USA. It normally starts on a Sunday in mid-February. [2]

  6. List of sled dog races - Wikipedia

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    Akiak Dash- Annual 60 mile race from Bethel, Alaska to Akiak, Alaska and back; Apostle Islands Sled Dog Race - The largest sled dog race in the Midwestern United States, held at Bayfield, Wisconsin, on a 60-mile course. [15] Baltic Winter Cup — Series of sleddog races across the Baltic states, on snow as well as on dryland. [16]

  7. Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race - Wikipedia

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    The race's namesake is the Iditarod Trail, which was designated as one of the first four US National Historic Trails in 1978. [6] The trail, in turn, is named for the town of Iditarod, which was an Athabaskan village before becoming the center of the Inland Empire's [a] Iditarod Mining District in 1910, and then becoming a ghost town at the end of the local gold rush.

  8. Glacier Creek (Turnagain Arm) - Wikipedia

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    In the TV show Gold Rush: Dave Turin's Lost Mine, Dave Turin operates a gold mine located at Glacier Creek.The mine is operated during 2021 mining season in the show Gold Rush: Dave Turin's Lost Mine (appearing in the 2022 season of the TV show) and during the subsequent 2022 mining season in the show Gold Rush (appearing in the 2023 season of the TV show).

  9. Snowmobile - Wikipedia

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    In the mid-1950s, a United States firm built a "snowmobile the arctic area of Alaska that had the drive train reversed of today's snowmobiles with two front wheels—the larger one behind the smaller one—with tires driving an endless loop track". Little is known about this "snowmobile" meant to haul cargo and trade goods to isolated ...