Legally Blind Musher Finishes Iditarod
Mar 18th, 2006 | by CousinPaulie | Posted in personal, press, sports, urban, weird news | Comments Off
NOME, Alaska – Rachael Scdoris and her Iditarod sled dog team were navigating a treacherous cliff, crisscrossed with switchbacks, when her sled slammed into a thick spruce tree.
“It was the worst run I’ve ever done,” said the legally blind musher, who finished the 1,100-mile race early Saturday in Nome.
Scdoris managed to recover from the fiasco in the Alaska Range and crossed the Iditarod finish line in the post-midnight chill of the old gold rush town, becoming the first legally blind musher to bring a sled dog team more than 1,100 miles from Anchorage to Nome.
Scdoris is limited to seeing blurry shapes of objects more than a few feet away and is acutely sensitive to bright lights. She is color blind and has 20-200 vision.
