Hi Boys and Girls

What a busy day in Nome.  Since this morning’s update 17 teams have arrived and 5 more are on their way after leaving White Mountain earlier today.  There are still close finishes going on. Did you see that Joar and Jaked finished 16 seconds apart? Or the finish between Cim and Paul and the one between Lance and Ramey? Hope you are watching and following all this excitement!. 

Todays pic from Jeff Schultz is of Ray Redington Jr. at the finish line.

Now for todays update:

DATE:   March 13, 2013  PM Edition

TIME:  13:47 Alaska Time   

FINISHERS:

5. Ray Redington Jr             9 days 11 hours and 4 minutes

6. Nicolas Petit                     9 days 11 hours and 39 minutes

7. Joar Leifseth Ulsom         9 days  12 hours and 34 minutes 0 seconds

8. Jake Berkowitz                 9 days  12 hours and 34 minutes  16 seconds

9.  Sonny Lindner                 9 days  13 hours and 11 minutes

10 Dee Dee Jonrowe           9 days  13 hours and 24 minutes

11.  Aaron Burmeister          9 days  14 hours and 19 minutes

12. Ken Anderson                9 days  16 hours and 9 minutes

13. Peter Kaiser                   9 days  17 hours and 36 minutes

14. Josh Cadzow                  9 days  18 hours and 7 minutes

15. Cim Smyth                      9 days  19 hours and 8 minutes

16. Paul Gebhardt                 9 days  19 hours and 9 minutes

17. Martin Buser                    9 days  20 hours and 1 minutes

18. Jessie Royer                    9 days  20 hours and 20 minutes

19  Lancy Mackey                  9 days  20 hours and 52 minutes

20. Ramey Smyth                  9 days  20 hours and 54 minutes

21. John Baker                      9 days  21 hours and 49 minutes.

WHERE ARE THE MUSHERS: Brent Sass and Mike Williams have left Safety.  Look for them to be in Nome shortly, Michelle Phillips, Jessica Hendricks, and Kelley Griffin are all out of White Mountain and headed to Safety. The next 3 teams are in White Mountain. 7 teams have left Elim, 5 teams are in Elim,  teams have left Koyuk, 1 team is in Koyuk, 1 teams has left Shaktoolik, 2 teams are in Shaktoolik, 1 team has left Unalakleet, 3 teams are in Unalakleet, 3 teams have left Kaltag 1 team has left Eagle Island,

RED LANTERN POSITION: Cindy Abbott  who has left Eagle Island.

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR POSITION: Joar Leifseth Ulsom who has finished and placed 7th

WEATHER:   The weather in Eagle Island is 18 degrees and fair. The weather in Kaltag is 5 degrees and fair. The weather in Unalakleet is 10 degrees and fair. The weather in Shaktoolik is 6 degrees and fair. The weather in Koyuk is 19 degrees and fair. The weather in Elim is 3 degrees and fair.  The weather in White Mountain is 24 degrees and fair and the weather in Nome is 16 degrees and partly cloudy.

SCRATCHED:  No one

WITHDRAWN:

It’s going to be another busy night in Nome as several more teams will be finishing.  Please check back in the morning to see who has finished. 

Until later,

Gypsy