Mitch Seavey became the second musher to reach the checkpoint of Timber, at 16:22. Because Jeff King (who was there early this afternoon) hasn’t reached Topkok yet (its only 16 miles away) one could assume that while Mackey and Seavey spent their time resting in Council, King decided to head on and get his rest [...]
Posted in the comments section, from Marlene Moto, a resident of Deering (which was only a 45 minute snow machine ride to Candle).
I was at candle to witness the top 10 mushers in and outta there, king waited in candle just when mackey was coming in, he came in just in time to sign in [...]
13:03 this afternoon Jeff King arrived into the checkpoint of Timber (67 miles from Nome), while Mitch Seavey and Lance Mackey were resting in Council (85 miles from Nome). At that time, Seavey had been resting for 3 hours, and Mackey had been resting atleast 2. Because there are no outbound times from each checkpoint, [...]
Nate & I sit down again (in a very cold studio) and talk for almost 20 minutes this morning on what has transpired since last night.
In this podcast we cover:
Current Standings
Can mushers maintain this pace into Nome?
When will the first musher arrive?
What is going on with start differentials?
Scratch Updates
What can we learn from 2007 Kobuk [...]
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 [...]