She has dropped back to 14th place and currently sits 390 miles in/585 from Nome and about 35 miles to Cripple. Dallas is closing in on Galena with 12 dogs in harness, 537 miles in/438 to Nome. There was a lot of snow, but the trail was packed down by the trail maintenance people. I was sitting next to my sled, the wind was blowing 50 miles an hour and like for a split second, maybe a minute, I didnt know what we were going to do. With an average speed of 3.93 mph Paige completed her eighth trip to Nome in 10 days, 2 hours and 43 minutes. Phew. Search and Rescue teams are with their dog teams and trail breakers have loaded up and are heading out with straw and provisions for the dogs until they can be safely brought in. Rookie Eric Kelly running with 10 dogs, 5 miles outside of Safety/27 miles from Nome Felt Dallas' team also looked good and that he could make a final push, but he was running out of miles to be able to catch Brent. Dallas Seavey - on layover in Cripple https://iditarod.com/zuma/iditarod-air-force/#:~:text=The%20Iditarod%20A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoIjoq9FkfI, Connect directly with Principal Broker Jeremy Hart, PSA: BigGameBoomer should not be taken as fact, Bill Roth hosts Brent Pry on the first episode of the "Level Seven" Podcast, Armchair Qb1's: too hot, too cold or, just right , ACC Commish, Jim Phillips, speaks at beginning of ACC Media Days, OT: Met a parent who's kid played for Coach Pry, Notre Dame seeking $75m annual payout to remain independent - Big 12 emerging as tv partner in said negotiations, TOP GUN MAVERICK: and why French hates it without seeing it. Lots of mushers commented on this stretch. You could audibly hear the wham, wham, wham as the sled was pounding the ground going over them in rapid succession. All of them will still be there for a while. Saturday morning March 19.
Ryan Reddington has taken over first place, having travelled 169 miles, followed closely by Nome's hometown musher Aaron Burmeister a mile back. Sass had also won his first Copper Basin 300 in January. In second place is Dallas Seavey. It's not white out but it's tough going." Glad others enjoy it as well. Millie Porsild
Among the teams that chose to take their 24 in Ophir, Richie Diehl is the only one that has completed the layover. There is a good chance of that as teams in position 14-20 are all close together, but the person in 21st is on the other side of Norton Sound and still has to cross. Monday, March 7, PM update: The leaders have gone through Rainy Pass checkpoint and are now on the sometimes steep downhill section of trail to the Rohn checkpoint. The final 4 mushers still in the race have completed the crossing of the Norton Sound and are resting at Koyuk, 171 miles from Nome. I was like, do I try and get out of this? Keeping Gerhard, Bridgett and all the mushers and dog teams facing the winds in our thoughts and prayers. Would so love to actually go there for the race and volunteer at one of the checkpoints.
No change in the top 3, but some motion behind them. Lisbet Norris, who had been running in the red lantern position decided to scratch at Unalakleet. Rookie Sean Williams, bib #2, just launched to start things off at 10:04 Alaska/2:04 east coast.
- Quote from Man Stabbed. GPS says Riley Dyche is back on the trail and running his team towards Safety checkpoint.
Unclear if they will wait until the weather clears - reports say it could hit 60 mph tonight - or if the race will close. She may be passed by a couple of other teams shortly as they are still running. Aaron Burmeister in 18th has reached Ophir with 11 dogs at 11:55 PM/3:55 AM and has been resting his team. This puts them about 40 miles from the Norton Sound coast. Mitch Seavey forth 373 miles in with 12 dogs (yes, that's Dallas' dad) Again, it is a day late so really talking about the day before:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoIjoq9FkfI. And Anja Radano did officially scratch in Nikolai. Further back, the two fast mushers who chose to take their 24 hours at McGrath completed the layover a while back. Ryan Redington
And then my, you know, survivor instinct kicked in and it was immediately like, we need to get out of here, whatever its going to take because we need to win this race, and we need to survive this.. Sass never trailed after passing Seavey on the trail just past the Ophir checkpoint Wednesday morning, which lies 623 miles from Nome. Thought is that most of the top mushers will have their 24 hour layover in McGrath, Ophir or Cripple. Interview with Burmeister back in Koyuk he said that there was no way anyone else was going to catch Brent or Dallas, so he was going to just take it easy and enjoy the rest of the race to Nome - which is where he was born and raised. Everyone who was in Ophir with Paige and company as well as 3 more who have arrived (Deke Naaktgeboron - although I guess we could call him 'Kevin' - and the Berington identical twin sisters) are staying there as well. Dogs could not go in a straight line and were being pushed to the side. Paige arrived in 11th place at 10:36 AM/2:36 PM and is still there 3 hours later having averaged ~5.5 mph on the run from Rohn. Paige is still listed as resting in Unalakleet. Paige and rookie Hanna Lyrek both pulled out of Koyuk and are on the trail to Elim. Michelle Phillips came in 10 minutes after Paige in 8th with 13 dogs. Thanks for taking the time to do this for us. Paige was second out of Rainy Pass, leaving just before noon local time/4 PM east coast. Now sits 629 miles in and 346 to Nome. NOME, Alaska (KTUU) - Brent Sass of Eureka finally got the monkey off his back Tuesday morning when he hit the finish line in Nome to win the 2022 Iditarod Sled Dog Race. Mushers 3-6 should all come in tonight. According to GPS tracker, Paige is in first place! As long as Sass' team does not falter big time, he should be crossing the finish first later this morning. Yeah to have all of them at the end is really uncommon. Got off and hunkered down at ~6 AM to wait for dawn. Maybe weather was bad, so things were delayed. Currently (10:17 PM east coast), Yuka is 43rd 352 miles in with 13 dogs, Kaylin is 44th 350 miles in with 11 dogs and Lisbet is in the "red lantern" position 45th 342 miles in with 12 dogs. Sass was disqualified in 2015 for using a iPod Touch, which was considered a two-way communication device by race officials and therefore illegal to use. Cleared up for about 15 minutes and he tried to get going, but quickly worsened. EDIT: And - literally - between the time I started typing this post and when I finished/looked back at the GPS tracker, it now has Paige listed in Ruby - at The Mighty Yukon! (link to the map: https://iditarod.com/race-map/ ). Just in front of her is Millie Porsild and just behind her is last year's winner Dallas Seavey, who was first out of Rainy Pass. Brent Sass has just passed through the last checkpoint before None, the Safety Road House. Speaking of Paige, her team is going more slowly than most. After Elim, it is Golovin, White Mountain, Safety and then Nome. Thanks for keeping us updated! These are posted a day later, so will be a bit old, but shows the conditions and talks a tiny bit about strategy. Champaign on ice (and you don't need an ice bucket, just sit it in the snow). Congratulations to all the mushers and their teams. Ryan Redington 9d 9h 26m 38s. One of Dallas' wins came when a storm forced leaders Aily Zirkle and Jeff King to both stop and he caught up and passed them. Riley's team has been stuck out there in this since this morning. Will the mushers who rested at McGrath and Ophir have the advantage because the dogs are rested to push through the storm. They were commenting on how fierce the winds were yesterday and this was from one of the text posts on the Iditarod site: "As Brent Sass and Dallas Seavey make their way to Koyuk, they are battling fierce winds and blowing snow. Edit: stayed to watch Paige leave at 2:10 PM. She is with a quartet of mushers there - Mats Pettersson, Hanna Lyrek (who will likely get rookie of the year as the first rookie to Nome) and the identical twins, Anna and Kristy Berington. His team is currently camped out on the trail, 729 miles in/246 to Nome. Join the community. Hopefully the team will be rested up for a good second half of the race. Has been quite a finish. He pulled out with 11 dogs at 1:23 AM local/5:23 east coast time. Registering for an account is free and easy. Apparently Riley Dyche has been in a shelter cabin so he has been well protected since this Friday morning. Dallas should be arriving in an hour or two in second. They will need to cross over a narrow peninsula of land and then will start their trip over the sea ice of Norton Sound. Let the dogs rest up in Ophir and then head out. His team looked very strong and eager to go and he has quickly moved up the leader board, 464 miles in/511 to Nome. The top 10 is essentially set as the top 9 are now in Nome and Aaron Peck is <5 miles away with no one else even close to him. Iditarod analyst Bruce Lee noted that both teams looked strong, although Dallas' seemed to have a bit more energy while Brent's team looked like soldiers steadily marching on and not slowing. She is also back in White Mountain waiting for evacuation. For any of those having a hard time visualizing where these places are that Frostysdad keeps talking about (like myself), here's a map to help. Heavy winds had blown away most snow and it was a mixture of rock, ice and minimal snow making the trail rough into Nikolai. He was scheduled to race in the past, but a family emergency made him drop out just before the race as his mom was sick. Had noted this morning that the next to finish would likely be Riley Dyche and that the wind had been fierce.
Behind Brent and Dallas are a quartet of mushers on the trail from Nulato to Kaltag: Jessie Holmes with 11 dogs 619 miles in, Richie Diehl with 11 dogs 601 miles in, Ryan Redington with 10 dogs 600 miles in and Aaron Burmeister with 9 dogs 598 miles in. Jessie Holmes with 11 dogs and 561 mils in/4:14 to Nome By early morning, Seavey had gained several miles on Sass, as wind gusts through the infamous blowhole upended Sass for more than 30 minutes. The third place musher, Jessie Holmes, is almost 60 miles back, so nobody is even close to the top 2. The rest of the top 5 remains Jessie Holmes (11 dogs), Richie Diehl (11 dogs) and Aaron Burmeister (9 dogs) all on the trail and ranging from about 35-50 miles from Unalakleet. From her bio: "Lisbet & her family are committed to maintaining the workability of the Siberian Husky and believe that participating in sled dog races, both sprint and distance, is the best way to benchmark the breed.". Glory is Forever, Let's Go Hokies!! Access Exclusive Content and Financially Support The Key Play, Ask the Expert: Connect directly with Principal Broker Jeremy Hart, Ad via TKP sponsor Nest Realty New River Valley. Bridgett has some frostbite to her face.
A couple others have pulled into Ophir after Travis - Aaron Peck and 2018 champion Joar Leifseth Ulsom from Norway. Thekeyplay.com is not affiliated with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. I would assume you have to drain it first which means getting that thing ung from a really big tree branch right? Sass spent his 24-hour layover Wednesday night through Thursday in Cripple. Looks they stuck together the rest of the way to Nome.". Winds and 6-8 inches of snow are in the forecast. Not supposed to be a terrible one, but on the live feed, snow is falling steadily in Ophir. Got the team all straightened out, tried walking in front of them with the ice anchors. Looks like about half of the people near the top have dropped a dog, so she is not alone in this. Guessing Jeff and KittiJo are just continuing onto Nome on their own. Go Paige!
Not sure why she would be there so long, so worried she may be having a problem. She pulled out at 8:55 PM/12:55 AM with 13 dogs having dropped one dog there. After the beating of the rough trail after Rohn, she decided to retire the team.
Apparently (and I had no idea this was the case) if you shoot a moose like this, you have to process the animal, which he did. As the last musher to complete the race and is awarded the Red Lantern as a symbol of perseverance and determination. So it is not over, but Brent is closing in. Things had melted a bit and then re-frozen, so it was like going over 2 foot swells in the ocean.
She was 2 minutes behind Jessie Holmes who still had all 14 dogs in harness. EDIT: and it is now official, although I still don't have what the official finishing time is. This puts her 714 miles in/261 to Nome. I pull for Seavey (yeah I am aware he is a heavyweight in the race).