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Stefanie Michaels, known to millions of fans as “Adventure Girl®,” has carved a unique niche for herself in the world of travel and entertainment. Stef's always up to adventure & making her fans wishes come true. This time, Stef's personal wish is about to become reality at this year's 35th anniversary Iditarod Dog Sled Race in Alaska! She will be one of this year's Idita-riders, hooking up with rookie musher Zoya DeNure of Crazy Dog Kennels.

Stefanie and Entertainment Industry Foundation are combining efforts to promote "Idita-Ride for a Cure" in honor of the 4 time Iditarod champ, Susan Butcher, who lost her battle with Leukemia last year.

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We at Dogsled.com spoke with Stefanie via telephone this week to learn more about her plans. She was very sincere in her effort to raise awareness for Susan's life, cancer battles and her contributions to mushing and women in sports. Cancer seems to touch almost everyone these days - nearly all of us have known or know someone who has battled with cancer. I applaud Stefanie for her efforts.

While she is only planning to be in Anchorage for a few days, we plan to capture a few sights and sounds with her before she blasts off with Zoya. Stay tuned.

/Kevin (aka Lead Dog) 

PRESS RELEASE 

Adventure Girl, Stefanie Michaels will be participating in the 35th iditarod, which takes place in Anchorage, Alaska March 3. Beating out more than 600 bidders, Michaels won the chance to compete in the first leg of the race on day one. Teaming up with former model turned musher, Zoya DeNure, Michaels will learn the ins and outs of what it takes to be a competitor.

Los Angeles, Calif. (PRWEB) February 12, 2007 -- Adventure Girl, Stefanie Michaels will be participating in the 35th Iditarod dog sled race, which takes place in Anchorage, Alaska on March 3. Beating out more than 600 bidders, Michaels won the chance to compete in the first leg of the race on day one. Teaming up with former model turned musher, Zoya de Nure, Michaels will learn the ins and outs of what it takes to be a competitor. She will also be teaming up and utilizing the exposure of this event to raise monies for cancer research. She will be riding and raising money in honor of the 4 time Iditarod winner, Susan Butcher, who tragically lost her battle with Leukemia last year.

Monies raised will benefit the Entertainment Industry Foundation- the same organization that works with Revlon for the Revlon run/walk and Katie Couric's initiative to cure colon cancer.

Stefanie is an online phenomena with a popular site, Adventuregirl.com www.adventuregirl.com - a myspace site, which boasts more than 9,000 friends and has been downloaded more than 1.5 billion times. Michaels has written a book on adventure travel for women (available on both her site adventuregirl.com and amazon.com), called Adventure Girl's Guide to Finding Adventure...Without Breaking a Nail. A percentage of sales from her site will go to EIF.

Also teaming up to raise monies is Zazzle.com- products created by Stefanie will be sold and 20% of sales will go to EIF.

Michaels will be with her camera team in Alaska, and will be vlogging daily to her friends at Myspace and video will be launched on the adventuregirl.com site's main page though out the event from Feb. 28-March 3.

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