subzero

It’s battered and bruised us with unprecedented snow and subzero temperatures across the Midwest, the South and the Northeast.

Inside a subzero freezer at a Northern California pet hospital sit rows of carefully labeled bags of fresh frozen plasma.

At first, you’ll delight in the can-do energy of a crew of oddballs goofing around in subzero conditions.

This year the deaths of three dogs during the race — and five more during training — have refocused attention on the darker side of Alaska’s state sport and raised questions about the ethics of asking animals to pull a heavy sled for hundreds of miles in subzero temperatures.

“Subzero” interest, he long has insisted.