Target Iditarod Teacher on the Trail^™ Shaktoolik

by Jane Blaile

After lunch today, Danny took Jeff to Shaktoolik for some pictures and I went along. We passed over what I think is one of the most beautiful parts of the Iditarod Trail, the Blueberry Hills. It's a hilly area along the Bering Sea coast. The Bering Sea is frozen part of the way out, but not completely. We landed on a slough on one side of Shaktoolik. It sits on a narrow spit of land between the sea and the slough. It's one long, straight road. Just one road with houses and buildings on both sides. And it was all I'd heard and read it would be: windy, windy, and windy! It's definitely the coldest I've been yet.

After taking some pictures around the checkpoint, I walked down to the store. When I returned, I was introduced to the principal of the school, and she took me to the school to get a picture of the quilt they received.

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