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February 22, 2018 · 5:15 PM EST

By Carolyn Beeler

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Frozen ice Bering Sea

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A frozen beach on the Bering Sea coast is seen near the last stretch mushers must pass before the finish line of the Iditarod dog sled race in Nome, Alaska, March 11, 2014. 

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