Iditarod mushers shrugged off jackets and sled dogs sunbathed as temperatures hovered around 40 degrees on Monday — hot by Alaska winter standards.
Eddie Burke Jr. dishes out water on Monday for his dogs at the Iditarod checkpoint near Rainy Pass Lodge.
Ryan Redington was the first musher into Rainy Pass, arriving around 9:30 a.m., within five minutes of his time last year. After a short nap in the checkpoint, he was back out in the dog yard to give his team some more water. He said he was going for consistency with his run-rest schedule, even if it meant he’d be starting a run during the warmest part of the day.
Sass is running the same rest schedule, but he was in fact about an hour faster than last year getting into Rainy Pass. She held onto the sled handlebars, but her finger got sandwiched between the handlebars and the snow bank.
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