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...S. Olympic Training Center before turning his attention back to dogs, was the first musher to reach the White Mountain checkpoint at 12:14 a.m. Alaska time.Sixty-six teams began the race on March 4. Eleven mushers have scratched...
...S. Olympic Training Center before turning his attention back to dogs, was the first musher to reach the White Mountain checkpoint at 12:14 a.m. Alaska time.Sixty-six teams began the race on March 4. Eleven mushers have scratched...
...commentator and former Iditarod champion Joe Runyan. The Iditarod board has added a flexible time penalty at the White Mountain checkpoint for anyone who violates the rule on outside assistance. The race marshal has the discretion to determine the...
...make any mistakes. Top mushers have already taken two mandatory rest stops, with a third awaiting them at the White Mountain checkpoint, 77 miles from Nome. With few strategic options left, correctly calculating a team's run-rest ratio is...
...Healy, retaking the lead early today in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Sørlie was the first musher into the White Mountain checkpoint, where teams are required to take an eight-hour layover before the 77-mile run to Nome. Sørlie arrived...
...hang on to a top-20 finish. DeeDee Jonrowe of Willow endured a trying 16-hour journey from Elim to the White Mountain checkpoint. Until Elim, Jonrowe had been maintaining a grip on fourth place. But after Jonrowe left the coastal village...
...Kasilof, DeeDee Jonrowe of Willow, John Baker of Kotzebue and Bjornar Andersen of Oslo, Norway, also left the White Mountain checkpoint, but were hours behind King. King was poised to join Swingley, Martin Buser and Susan Butcher as four-time...
...Riley became the only Iditarod musher to be banned from the race for life, after an incident outside of the White Mountain checkpoint, just 75 miles from Nome. He was later allowed to run the race under close supervision on a year-to-year...
...figured out something we have not figured out yet." Mackey was the first musher early Tuesday morning to the White Mountain checkpoint, about 80 miles from the finish line and where mushers must take a mandatory eight-hour rest. He built a...
...to make an Iditarod team. After more than a thousand miles, the two finally began racing when they left the White Mountain checkpoint, 77 miles from Nome, Sorlie said. Sorlie and Backen each have years of mushing experience and each has won...