USNews.com: Nation & World: Legally blind: A dogsledder's tales: "Legally blind: A dogsledder's tales
By Helen Fields
Posted 2/25/06
On a day when the temperature in Washington, D.C., didn't reach 40 degrees, Rachael Scdoris showed up at our offices without a jacket. She should be used to the cold. At 21, Scdoris is one of the youngest people ever to have competed in the Iditarod, the grueling 1,200-mile dogsled race from Anchorage to Nome. Oh—and she was born with congenital achromatopsia, a disorder that makes her colorblind, extremely sensitive to light, and legally blind. In her memoir No End in Sight, cowritten with family friend Rick Steber, she writes about sledding without full sight."
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