Announcement!

It has come to our attention that the Chiditarod t-shirts were printed using environmentally-friendly ink. 

Once you get your t-shirt home, make sure you heat set the silkscreens with a hot iron before washing.  Otherwise the silkscreen may fade in the wash! 

"What if I don't have an iron?"

Food Drive

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Food Drive

The Chiditarod collected 900 lbs. of food in 2006, and over 2,300 lbs. in 2007!

So, where's all that food going?

More cartist media than you can swallow.

2008

• Photos and Video from 2008

2007

• Photos and Video from 2007

2006

We are pretty high-tech around here, and present the same content in two ways.
Pick your poison:

• Flash Image Galleries
• Image Galleries

We're on Tribe.
We're also on MySpace.
We're even on Facebook. Oh my. Be our friends.

To stay up on the latest news and gossip, please join the Google Group (Mailing List). It's also a good resource for finding an extra teammate or to finagle yourself into an existing team.

Where did you get the idea for this event?
We stole it from some people in New York who have been doing it since 2003. They stole it from a group of people in San Francisco who have been doing it since 1994. Some call us the Chicago Idiotarod; we just call ourselves idiots.

Can I make a side bet?
Absolutely.

Support the cause by bringing food!

Since the Chiditarod is also a food drive, putting food in a team's cart will increase their chances of winning the prize for most food collected. Why not bring some high-protein, non-perishable food for the racers? The 2008 food collection goal is 1.5 metric tons of food. We are not joking. In 2007 the Chiditarod collected 2,353 pounds of food, so get ready!

Where should I watch the race?

The utmost respect for the legendary...

• Iditarod

You gotta give credit to those who came before...

Everyone's a winner at Chiditarod.