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Iditapod: Big push to the coast

Iditarod 2014: musher Nicolas Petit in the Cripple checkpoint. (Photo: David Dodman, KNOM)
Iditarod 2014: musher Nicolas Petit in the Cripple checkpoint. (Photo: David Dodman, KNOM)

Girdwood's Nicolas Petit stayed in the lead of the 2019 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Sunday after making a long 90ish-mile run from Kaltag to Unalakleet overnight. We hear from a couple Yukon-Kuskokwim-area rookies in this year's race, and a couple YK-area parents with kids in the Iditarod. Plus, a question about climate change and a conversation with Iditarod musher Kristin Knight Pace, who has a book out called "This Much Country."

Casey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly, a general assignment reporter and an editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach him at cgrove@alaskapublic.org.