It's All about Math

Nip and Tuck here,
We visited Dew Claw Kennel blog and found out that if you are a musher you need to know your math. Jodi starts her blog entry with this statement, "Lately my head has been swimming in numbers. Which usually leaves me thinking, “why didn’t I work harder to study math when I was in school?”  Really to all the young mushers out there who want to know what they can do to prepare themselves for Iditarod – Study Math.  " 

We wonder why mushers would need to worry about math, so we continue to read.  Jodi needs to pack 1812 pounds of dog food, dog supplies, and human stuff into 50 bags that weigh less than 50 pounds each?

Wow! that made us think "how do you do that?" Then we thought, " what do we have to get in the bags. As we read on we found out about all the kinds of stuff that Jodi needs at A Post about Numbers or Drop Bags. Check out some of her past post to see what you need to pack if you are running the team on the Iditarod Trail,  Anatomy of Drop Bags. Gearing up to Pack it in, and Another Race in the Bag.

We learned a lot but wonder do all mushers do that? Then we remember that Hermie had talked about Ali Zirkle packing her bags in a previous post to we revisited it.