In tonight’s podcast we sit down with Dr. Phil Schobert, the Executive Race Director and talk with him about how the race is going so far, when we might expect a first place musher into Nome, and briefly speaks about the first scratch of the race, and I try to get some information about all [...]
So, after I posted the information about mushers making up their starting time at some unknown checkpoint along the trail, I got a phone call from race headquarters alerting me to the fact that the other day, at the closed mushers meeting, the “dog runners” told race officials that they all would rather not make [...]
updated at 17:45 to reflect a new musher arrival into Candle, and correction
Position
Musher
Time/Checkpoint
1
#10 Jeff King
14:44 13 Dogs – Candle
2
#15 Lance Mackey
15:06 13 Dogs - Candle
3
#12 Mitch Seavey
15:30 10 Dogs – Candle
4
# 4 Jim Lanier
16:34 13 Dogs - Candle
5
#17 Sonny Lindner
11:52 13 dogs – Gold Run
6
#5 Ed Iten
11:55 12 Dogs – [...]
15:06 - Lance Mackey, second in to Candle - and BACK out on the trail 20 minutes after Jeff King.
14:44 - Jeff King arrived into Candle first! - 13 dogs in harness
2:00pm - Word is just coming in from the Candle checkpoint, the weather is looking pretty good, its 4 above zero, and the skies are clear. They are awaiting the first musher at the halfway point, and it appears via airplane report that the first musher to reach the checkpoint will be Lance Mackey…..but then [...]
I just got back a few minutes ago from recording our first podcast, I was trying all morning to get some information to post, but ended up just going with the info we had at the time and recording this podcast. Right before the podcast we got the word that Hugh Neff has withdrawn [...]