Norway's Robert Sorlie sits with his lead dogs Socks, left, and Blue, after he crossed the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska, Wednesday, March 16, 2005, to win his second Iditarod.
Four-time champion Martin Buser drives his team during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Wednesday, March 9, 2005, a few miles from the Ophir, Alaska, checkpoint.
Bill Steyer, from Fairbanks, Alaska, gets ready to head out of the Takotna, Alaska, checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, March 11, 2005.
One of musher Doug Swingly's sled dogs beds down for the night during a break in the 1,100-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race at the Takotna, Alaska. checkpoint Wednesday night, March 9, 2005.
Norwegian musher and Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Robert Sorlie drives his dog team past a trail marker about 30 miles outside of Unalakleet, Alaska, Sunday, March 13, 2005.
Trine Lise, left, greets Norwegian musher Robert Sorlie as he pulls into the Eagle Island, Alaska checkpoint on the Yukon River to lead the 1,100-mile race Saturday, March 12, 2005. Sorlie won in 2003 and was rookie of the year in 2002, finishing in the top 10.
Trine Lyrek put booties on one of her dogs in Unalakleet, Alaska, Tuesday, March 15, 2005, as she prepares to leave the Bering Sea village and make her way to Nome on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Rachael Scdoris from Bend, Ore., talks about the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Takotna, Alaska, Friday, March 11, 2005. Scdoris, who is the first legally blind musher to compete in the 1,100-mile race, dropped out at the Eagle Island checkpoint Wednesday, March 16.
Jessie Royer, of Fairbanks, Alaska, drives her dog team into the Bering Sea coast village of Unalakleet, Alaska, early Monday, March 14, 2005, during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
One of Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher Cim Smyth's sled dog howls at the dropped-dog slot in McGrath, Alaska, Tuesday, March 8, 2005. Mushers drop dogs from their team when they feel the dog's health is in jeopardy or if the dog is hurt and unable to continue the 1,100-mile race. The dogs are flown back to Anchorage where they are treated, and picked up by their owners after the race.
A musher drives his team along the Iditarod Trial Sled Dog Race through the trees on the Farewell burn area near Nikolai, Alaska, Tuesday, March 8, 2005.
Dodo Perri of Italy leaves the Takotna, Alaska, checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, March 11, 2005. The next checkpoint in the 1,100-mile race is the halfway point at the ghost town of Iditarod, about 144 miles up the trail.