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Hi Boys and Girls, Did you remember about Daylight Savings time? Clocks should have been set ahead 1 hour last night. Don’t worry, all of the teams overall times have been adjusted for the time change. What a Saturday it was on the trail. Jeff and Aliy are back on the trail after being attacked …
Dear Boys and Girls, Today I have a very important message for you to read and understand. Over the weekend, we had a very sad thing happen during the race to mushers Jeff King and Aliy Zirkle. They were both involved in an accident involving a snowmachine (or snow mobile) that was on the same …
Brent Sass 1st into Unalakleet
Brent Sass has arrived 1st into Unalakleet and is staying in the checkpoint. He arrived to a big crowd. HIs name will be added to the Wells Fargo 1st to Coast Awards trophy. He will receive $ 3500 in Gold Nuggets. This photographer had a blank morning moment. Only once snapping away, did I realize …
The order of business for Saturday at McGrath was moving people to new locations and new assignments. I’m moving to Unalakleet, the first village on the Bering Sea. From all information we can see through race stats, Insider and GPS Tracker it would appear the Brent Sass will collect the First to the Gold Coast …
Setting up for Coastal Strategies
The race now comes down to the wire. Close to 250 miles to go when the teams leave Unalakleet. Brent Sass is the rabbit. He has a 9 mile lead on Dallas Seavey and 10 mile lead on Aliy Zirkle. He is traveling about the same speed as Aliy. Dallas, although driving less dogs, is …
Leaving Kaltag the portage trail has plenty of snow. Its bumpy going, pretty much every year. The first team I came upon was Dallas Seavey. He had camped about 20 miles out. When meeting a musher camped out, I always stay in a bit of a distance to see if they are up and about …
I passed Noah Burmeister, Nicolas Petit and Robert Sorlie on the Yukon River. Robert is a few miles out of Kaltag now. He is on the best schedule of the 3 mushers, getting out of the heat of the day soon. After a cold morning the sun is warming things up quickly. No wind either. …
Hi Boys and Girls, This morning outside of the checkpoint of Nulato, both Aliy Zirkle and Jeff Kings teams were intentionally hit by a snowmobiler. Here is the official press release: http://d3r6t1k4mqz5i.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/3.12.16_Iditarod_ZirkleKingandteamspurposefullyhitbysnowmachiner-FINAL.pdf?f4b8d7 Jeff and Aliy have both decided to continue the race. A suspect has been identified. Let’s send good thoughts to both teams. I …
Press release Nulato
A very unfortunate incident happened this morning here in Nulato. Both Aliy Zirkle and Jeff King’s teams were attacked by a snowmachiner. Here is the link to the official press release. http://d3r6t1k4mqz5i.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/3.12.16_Iditarod_ZirkleKingandteamspurposefullyhitbysnowmachiner-FINAL.pdf?f4b8d7 Both Aliy and Jeff handled the situation very well. Jeff is still sleeping in the checkpoint and Aliy is on her way to …
Reports of a snow machine attack on Aliy Zirkle and Jeff King.
