The lodges are spot on with their call on today's "Fake Iditarod".  They have seen first hand how the race and race organization has changed over the decades.  If they want to take the fake out of Iditarod, then these folks should work to get Nordman out of the ITC.  From banning Brent Sass for the wrong model of iPod (then flip-flopping to allow 2-way communications, to making the Iditarod easy so his geezer musher friends can finish it ... Nordman is a train wreck and is bad for the Iditarod, and should have been shown the door 15 years ago.