Photo by Patrick Yack, APRN -Anchorage
Each musher's sled is equipped with a tracking device that pinpoint the musher's precise location. A sled full of devices await being positioned on sleds before the start of the race on Sunday.
Iditarod front runner Sebastian Schnuelle was first into Nikolai Tuesday morning at 9:47 with just a hair more than a half hour lead over Mitch Seavey. Alaska Dispatch reporter Jill Burke is in Nikolai and she says after Seavey a string of familiar names arrived.
Lori Townsend, APRN – AnchorageDownload Audio (MP3)