The re-start in Willow went as planned and we now have 95 Iditarod teams out on the trail on their way to Nome. GB Jones became the first official musher to scratch from the race, he ran the 11-mile course in Anchorage with his Iditarider, and then withdrew due to a previous injury.
Late tonight [...]

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After a nice, leisurely 11-mile fun-run this morning, mushers, their handlers, and hundreds of tourists are right now getting checked into their Anchorage area hotels, or spending the night at a friend’s home, getting ready for the hour long drive out to Willow Alaska, the new official restart location of the Iditarod. Saturday morning’s [...]

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