SCARIEST/HARRIEST ATHLETES ON THE PLANET

Mushers clearly are not out to win a beauty contest, as the Anchorage Daily News 2006 Iditarod Musher gallery proves.

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Looked like a huge police line-up, didn't it?

If you ever worried that meth has reached Alaska, the photo of Lance Mackey (#24) will do nothing to calm your fears. Other highlights include:
Trent Herbst (#68) - Proof there's someone for everyone.
Tim Osmar (#41) - Looks like the actor who played Bluto opposite Robin Williams' Popeye finally turned up.
Sebastian Schnuelle (#34) - I guess Schnuelle is German for "Manson."
Rachel Scdoris (#42) - Finally, and admirably (and actually attractively), she's blind and running the Iditarod. Of course, I'm sure she'd reconsider if she had an inkling of what her fellow racers looked like.

By the way, as of noon Tuesday, March 14 three-time champ Jeff King was the first to begin taking his mandatory 8-hour rest at the White Mountain checkpoint, roughly 60 miles from Nome. Barring any surprise event, like collision with an insane moose - just ask Susan Butcher - he has the contest locked up.