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Students run Onalaska Iditarod

After making their own sleds, students at Onalaska Middle School conducted their own sled dog race last week on a snowy afternoon.

The “dogs” being mushed in this case were eighth-graders as a half dozen teams vied to be first across the finish line. The contest was the culmination of six weeks of study and, like the real Alaskan Iditarod, was run in sections.

Above is the winning Onalaska Middle School Iditarod "dog team," Punners ’r’ Us. They are, from left, Andrew Stuhr, Bjorn Blomquist, Dustin Gordon, Lucas Wavra, and Braeden Stoner. The hidden musher is Ryan Aschenbrenner. Check out the PHOTO GALLERY to see more pictures from the event. Photo by Michael Martin

First across the line was the Punners ‘r’ Us team, beating the Macaroni Penguins and others.

The race course, which meandered around the athletic fields and through some adjoining woods — where several “moose” lurked — took more than a half hour and thoroughly exhausted all the participants.

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