Hi Boys and Girls

Hope you are having a great weekend.  The weather has been warm along the trail the past couple of days.  This makes the trail punchy and hard to get through. The temps seem to be cooling off now so hopefully that will help the teams.  The first 6 mushers are fairly close together.  While Martin has a 3 hour lead over Aily.  Aily, Mitch, Jessie, and Aaron all left within an hour of each other.  Stay tuned as it’s still anyone race.  Most of the mushers have completed the first 8 hour mandatory rest. 

Todays picture from Jeff Schultz is of Angie Taggert packing her sled as she prepares to leave the checkpoint of Iditarod.

Now for today’s update:

DATE:   March 9, 2013  Weekend Edition 1

TIME:  13:20   Alaska Time  

LEADERS: 1. Martin Buser  2. Aily Zirkle  3. Mitch Seavey 4. Jessie Royer 5. Aaron Burmeister 

WHERE ARE THE MUSHERS: The first 16 mushers have all left Eagle Island and all have taken their 8 hour mandatory rest. 5 teams are in Eagle Island, 6 teams have left Grayling, 10 teams are in Grayling, 7 teams have left Anvik, 4 teams have left Shagaluk, 4 teams are in Shagaluk, 5 teams have left Iditarod, 2 teams are in Iditarod, 4 teams have left Ophir

RED LANTERN POSITION: Cindy Abbott  who has left Ophir.

WEATHER:   The weather is starting to cool off out on the trail.  The teams in Ophir and Iditarod are experiencing temps in the mid 20’s and it’s cloudy. The weather in Shagaluk is 18 and mostly fair, The weather in Anvik, Grayling and Eagle Island is near 20 and mostly cloudy.. 

SCRATCHED: No one- YEAH

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Keep checking in to see the latest race news.  Who do you think will win and when do you thing they will cross the finish line in Nome?

Until tomorrow,

Gypsy