Iditarod
You’re a serious race fan if you check tracker before email in the morning. What you found this morning was a rather amazing sight. There were mushers moving again so green versus orange flags AND they were all between Ophir and Ruby. Roughly 143 miles separates the leader from the 38th team. That’s right 38 …
Veteran musher Nicolas Petit (bib #17), of Big Lake, Alaska is the first musher to arrive at the Ruby checkpoint on the Yukon River at 10:08 p.m. with 15 dogs in harness. In doing so, Petit claims the First Musher to the Yukon Award. The award consists of a gourmet dinner prepared by Top …
A dozen rookies, all in the back of the pack are either in Takotna or will arrive yet tonight. They are soon to find out what all veterans know. Takotna is the friendliest little checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail. The checkpoint is one of the favorites for doing the long 24-hour rest. There’s a woodfired …
Dallas Seavey arrived in Cripple at 20:09 on 3/6 to be first to the Halfway Award checkpoint. Seavey of Talkeetna earned the Dorothy G. Page Award presented by race sponsor GCI. He has his choice of either $3,000 in gold nuggets or a smartphone of his choice with a year of free GCI mobile service. …
Photographer Siri Raitto is out of Rainy Pass headed to Cripple via Iditarod Air Force. The weather eased up in Rainy so dogs and volunteers could be flown back to Anchorage. Siri shares some photos taken along the way of Rohn and the trail to Nikolai. See more Siri photos in the …
Veteran musher Dallas Seavey (bib #7), of Talkeetna, Alaska, is the first musher to reach the Cripple checkpoint, which is halfway point of the Northern Route in Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race®. Seavey arrived at 8:09 p.m. with 15 dogs in harness. By arriving first in Cripple, Seavey wins the Dorothy G. Page …
Insider interviews with mushers today in McGrath has revealed a common thread – mashed potatoes. If they had been talking about dinner that would have been a good thing but they weren’t. The mushers were talking about the trail – soft trail that slowed teams down heading into Nikolai and again from Nikolai to McGrath. …
Iditarod Race Marshal, Warren Palfrey, convened a three-person panel comprised of race officials today to discuss (bib #7) Dallas Seavey’s encounter with a moose early Monday morning enroute from Skwentna to Finger Lake. After further investigation, the details of the event are as follows: A moose was dispatched approximately 14 miles from Skwentna on …
Nikolai to Ophir accurately describes the position of teams on the trail – EXCEPT, Dallas Seavey has departed Ophir for Cripple and is resting out of Ophir. Maybe the extra/unplanned rest his dogs got while he dealt with the previously mentioned moose 14 miles beyond Skwentna set him up for a longer run to his …
It’s mid-afternoon on Tuesday. While Insiders Greg Heister and Bruce Lee gave an update from Nikolai, they both agreed that the champion for 2024 would likely come from the group of 12 mushers that have reached Nikolai at this time. Statistics from past races support that statement. Time will tell but I did take a …
