Just as predicted yesterday, Lance Mackey was passed on the trail from Kaltag to Unalakleet by 4-time champion Jeff King. King has been running at a faster pace than Mackey for the last few days, but because of rest schedules Mackey was pulled over this morning when King flew by. This is the third year [...]
Jeff King is getting closer and closer to overtaking Lance Mackey and leading this year’s Iditarod as the mushers approach the coastal village of Unalakleet. Earlier this morning Mackey made what could end up being a vital mistake and lost a few precious hours to this closest competitor. Lance was less than an hour from [...]
Mackey was the first one into Ruby, and this afternoon he was the first one out of Ruby. Mackey, coming off of pushing very hard over two long streches of the trail took his manditory 8-hour layover at the first available checkpoint out of the four that are along the Yukon River. Mackey led [...]
Just about an hour ago (at 7:32am Alaska time) Lance Mackey completed a long 112 mile trek from Cripple to make him the first musher to reach the Yukon, and the village of Ruby. As I reported last night the first musher to this checkpoint (and Anvik on the southern route) wins $5000 and [...]
Much has changed since this morning when I last posted, I kept trying to get to a computer to file another report, but things have been pretty crazy today for me as well…
This morning we reached the halfway point of the race, DeeDee Jonrowe was the first musher to reach Cripple, this years halfway point. [...]
With the top three (King, Mackey, and Backen) now off of their 24-hour layover in Takotna, over the next day they will try and catch up to the pack of nearly 15 that went on ahead of them to rest at a later checkpoint. Out of that second pack that hasn’t taken their 24 [...]
Just a real quick post as we head into tomorrow morning and the race will start to really heat up! The original lead pack of the Iditarod so far will emerge early in the morning from their 24-hour layovers and will attempt to catch up with the crew that passed them, and are opting to take the [...]
Mitch Seavey and Hugh Neff were the first to fly through Takotna this morning around 7am, however Lance Mackey got in about 5 and a half hours earlier and decided to stay a while. This is the point in the race more than ever when the standings on the Iditarod website are nothing other [...]
Even after dropping one of his most famous dogs “Hobo” back in Rohn, and with a team who isn’t giving him the speed he is looking for, Lance Mackey decided his scheduled rest in Nikolai was going to be a little bit shorter than other mushers, as he was the first to leave at 4:17pm [...]
Mackey was leading the pack for a while, but according to the new GPS feature on the Iditarod website, it looks like Kjetil Backen will be the first musher to check into Nikolai later this afternoon. Its been difficult having to guess where the leaders are when only a small handful of the mushers [...]