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Photo: Town Of Cripple, Iditarod’s Halfway Point, Is Not Much Of A Town

by Ryan Hudson
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This is a photo of Cripple, a checkpoint on the Iditarod trail, and the halfway mark between Anchorage and Nome. The population is zero (it’s a ghost town). You can’t even find it on Google Maps -- you have to enter its actual coordinates.

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↵The isolated Alaskan wilderness is isolated.

↵(via @IditarodLive)

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