Mitch Seavey and Jeff King duked it out for first place late last night, and we were there to watch Lance Mackey and others arrive early this morning. Ramey Brooks was the latest, coming in just an hour or so ago. Its been a sleep deprived week and I’m looking forward to returning to a sane schedule here pretty soon! I’ve got audio of this morning’s arrival of Mackey into Nome, and of course you can find the winner’s audio in a previous post. I was pretty impressed that when Mackey got in, so many people came out to see the reigning Yukon & Iditarod champion into Nome at 2am.
There is a tradgic story coming out about Mackey’s team being hit by a snowmachine outside of Cape Nome…. details are sketchy right now and I’ll try and get a complete story to post as soon as possible, we should be talking to Lance very soon.
Also, King was able to get a few minutes with the media early this morning after coming into Nome and made some fun comments on the All Alaska Sweepstakes, and I’m working on getting some of those typed up.
Here is the current list of mushers into Nome so far:
- Seavey - 3/28/08 - 23:29
- King - 3/28/08 - 23:39
- Mackey - 3/29/08 - 1:59
- Lindner - 3/29/08 - 5:19
- Iten - 3/29/08 - 10:37
- Lanier - 3/29/08 - 10:52
- Smyth - 3/39/08 - 13:12
- Brooks - 3/29/08 - around 15:15 (official time not posted yet)
…Sigh… just left a comment under the last heading…any news yet on Mackey and his team ??? I am just heartsick over this news… How is Lance…he must be beside himself…Josh, you said it right…tragic. Does anyone have any news yet???
Left by JuliL on March 29th, 2008