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Our Alaska: The ice racers

Alaska Dispatch

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Near the South Port Marina on Alaska's Big Lake, motorcycle and ATV racers take to a plowed-out ice oval to test their skills at speeds approaching 80 miles per hour. "When you're out there, and you're in the pack, things move incredibly slow. Everybody jumbles around slow, the positions move slow, it seems like you go slow," says Alaska Ice Racers president Richard Dietrich. "But when you look at the camera for an outside view ... We're not going slow."

1127-ouralaska"Sarah Palin's Alaska" started its eight-week run on TLC Sunday, Nov. 14. While the former governor gives viewers nationwide her own tour of the Last Frontier, Alaska Dispatch will take a look at the state as it's experienced by residents across the state -- urban and rural, young and old, from all walks of life. You've seen "Sarah Palin's Alaska" -- now welcome to Our Alaska.