And the elder Seavey, Mitch, has also left White Mountain. Before departing he was fidgeting with his GPS and we ripped him: ” Are you programming your board computer for better fuel mileage?” Mitch quipped back, ” No, I tried to turn up the RPMs.”

Being a little short on lead dogs, Woody was in single lead again: ” I do not know how much of a grand exit I can make here.” When it got time to go, the swing dogs gave Woody a little push from behind and the team marched nicely upriver. Mitch is driving 10 dogs. Both Mitch and Dallas have dropped 2 dogs each here in White Mountain and Mitch still has 3 more dogs in his team. A couple of minutes after Mitch left, Wade Marrs arrived into White Mountain, still in 5th place. A lot can happen in the last 77 miles, we were reminded of that in 2014, when the finishing order was rewritten in the last 25 miles before Nome.

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