HUMAN

Name: Carol Stedman

Age: 78

Residence: Wasilla, Alaska

Occupation: Retired

Years involved with Iditarod: 10 years

Iditarod Role: I’ve been involved since 2017 as a volunteer and longer as an Iditrarider. This year it’s volunteer registration, musher, helping with musher sign in and coms and call center.

Current Location: Lakefront Hotel, Anchorage, Alaska
Date of Photo: March 3, 2022

Temperature: 68 F Indoors

What, who or how and when did you first get involved with the Iditarod?

I first became involved with the Iditarod in 2011 when I came up to see it for the first time and was a Iditarider.

What is your Why? Why are you here TODAY and involved with the Iditarod?

I am here today and involved with the Iditarod because once I saw the first race, I was just coming up to see it once, I came back and saw it twice, I came back because after the fifth time, I decided to move to Alaska so I could volunteer.

Tell me about just one of your most memorable Iditarod experiences.

I think one of my most memorable Iditarod experiences was my first race that I got to ride out as an Iditarider and I was in Mitch Seavey’s sled and everybody greeted us along the way and I got to see what the real Alaska looked like.

What do you know for sure?

What I know for sure in life is not very much.