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Mitch 1st to White Mountain at 05:11 AM Mitch Seavey arrived White Mountain at 05:11AM with lead dog Tanner in command of the trail. Mitch was subdued after what must have been another exhausting night on the trail. After a discussion about how to park the ten dogs on the river ice so he would …
7:43 AM Seavey leads into Koyuk
7Am Lights on the Ice—Seavey leads, King in Pursuit, pack is agitated Our crew took a nap at the Koyuk school library, then walked a quarter mile to the Koyuk checkpoint in still air. Have I ever been in Koyuk when wind wasn’t blowing? On the ice, lights flicker, some brighter—must be snowmachines—and then, inexplicably, …
Blankly staring at the Roman numerals XLI, especially the indecipherable L, one of my mushing colleagues broke my reverie and schooled me…
01 Seavey, Dallas 02 Zirkle, Aliy 03 Smyth, Ramey 04 Burmeister, Aaron 05 Kaiser, Pete 06 Redington, Ray 07 Seavey, Mitch 08 Williams, Michael Jr. 09 Baker, John 10 Jonrowe, DeeDee 11 Ekran, Sigrid 12 Anderson, Ken 13 Sass, Brent 14 Lindner, Sonny 15 Gebhardt, Paul 16 Phillips, Michelle 17 Neff, Hugh 18 Buser, Rohn …
Wasilla, Alaska – Saturday, June 30, 2012 – The 2013 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race sign-ups began at 9:00 AM AK Time at the Iditarod Trail Committee Headquarters in Wasilla. By the end of the first draw deadline at 3:00 PM, 54 mushers had signed up, which included 9 rookies. Current Iditarod Champion Dallas Seavey, …
1PM—-Momentum changes, Burmeister out first, Seavey the Younger follows, next Aliy by Joe Runyan Please refer to all the exact times using the wonderful resources of the Insider, and suffer my approximations. I was in the dog yard as Burmeister and Dallas Seavey booted dogs, at the same time noting that Zirkle was behind in …
8 AM Nulato—Dallas Seavey into Nulato—takes break—not ready to make move by Joe Runyan —Early morning in the arctic with winter pastel pinks and soft blues on the eastern horizon, the Yukon a singular white palette, framed by thickets of willows and alders.— The sun has not risen, but the turn of light, that transformational …
5 PM Friday Nulato, 100 miles from Ruby and waiting for first musher Moving always with the race, our Insider crew is now in Nulato, a village situated on the north side of the Yukon. Instead of the single channel we saw in Ruby, the river has expanded onto a broad flood plain with braids, …
6AM Thursday CrippleCheckpoint—-top 5 leave Ophir in Knot to Cripple—Lanier and Herbst battle for the gold prize—by Joe Runyan Mitch Seavey, Zirkle, Dallas Seavey, King, and John Baker leave Ophir in a one hour time knot around 4AM bound for Cripple. Trail breakers I talked with here in Cripple tell me the mileage is a …
