Anna has been adjusting her strategy on the fly and is definitely running with a race mentality. The 12 dogs traveling with her have stellar appetites and are moving along great, so the fact that she's 715 miles in with 413 miles to go isn't as overwhelming as you might expect.
Anna ended up giving her dogs a 2 hour rest in Anvik, largely to avoid some slow trail in warm temps. She pulled out around 7pm Monday evening when temps had dropped, and ran 28 miles to Shageluk.. She stayed in Shag for four hours, resting while Monday turned to Tuesday, hit the trail before 3am, ran 28 miles to Grayling-2, stopped 9 minutes to resupply, and was off once again!
She did camp trailside between Grayling-2 and Eagle Island-2, and then made one more run before arriving in EI-2 Tuesday evening around 7:20pm. She arrived in 16th place and will get the dogs settled in and have a good 8 hour rest.
When Anna and her dogs hit the trail again, watch for them to take one trailside camp between EI-2 and Kaltag-2, resupply in K-2, and then head to the coast. Her first stop for a camp will be a familiar one - Tripod Flats Safety Cabin, run by the BLM.
Meanwhile, we have Jessie Holmes at mile 875 after 8 days 8m hours+ on the trail. He's running a team of 11 dogs and has 253 miles to the finish. He has completed both his 24 and his 8 hour on the Yukon. He, like every musher, will take one final 8 hour rest White Mountain, 71 miles from Nome.
Matt Hall and Paige Drobny are chasing him down the trail, at miles 866 and 855, respectively. Matt has a 10-dog team, Paige 13. Quince Mountain is still our Red Lantern, last at mile 585. Our lead-lag spread is now a whopping 290 miles.
Rookie Bryce Mumford set his snowhook the final time in Grayling-1, opting to end his race. As always, wishing Bryce and his team safe and swift travels home. He's our 7th musher to scratch, leaving 26 of our original 33 teams still mushing to Nome.
This Mad Blogger will be back as Anna and her team work their way to the Bering Sea Coast. And we might see our winner under the burled arch late Thursday, more likely early Friday. But there could be some storms brewing along the coast and mushers have their 8 hour in White Mountain. Still plenty of race left.
You're never Nome until you're fully Nome.
Anna ended up giving her dogs a 2 hour rest in Anvik, largely to avoid some slow trail in warm temps. She pulled out around 7pm Monday evening when temps had dropped, and ran 28 miles to Shageluk.. She stayed in Shag for four hours, resting while Monday turned to Tuesday, hit the trail before 3am, ran 28 miles to Grayling-2, stopped 9 minutes to resupply, and was off once again!
She did camp trailside between Grayling-2 and Eagle Island-2, and then made one more run before arriving in EI-2 Tuesday evening around 7:20pm. She arrived in 16th place and will get the dogs settled in and have a good 8 hour rest.
When Anna and her dogs hit the trail again, watch for them to take one trailside camp between EI-2 and Kaltag-2, resupply in K-2, and then head to the coast. Her first stop for a camp will be a familiar one - Tripod Flats Safety Cabin, run by the BLM.
Meanwhile, we have Jessie Holmes at mile 875 after 8 days 8m hours+ on the trail. He's running a team of 11 dogs and has 253 miles to the finish. He has completed both his 24 and his 8 hour on the Yukon. He, like every musher, will take one final 8 hour rest White Mountain, 71 miles from Nome.
Matt Hall and Paige Drobny are chasing him down the trail, at miles 866 and 855, respectively. Matt has a 10-dog team, Paige 13. Quince Mountain is still our Red Lantern, last at mile 585. Our lead-lag spread is now a whopping 290 miles.
Rookie Bryce Mumford set his snowhook the final time in Grayling-1, opting to end his race. As always, wishing Bryce and his team safe and swift travels home. He's our 7th musher to scratch, leaving 26 of our original 33 teams still mushing to Nome.
This Mad Blogger will be back as Anna and her team work their way to the Bering Sea Coast. And we might see our winner under the burled arch late Thursday, more likely early Friday. But there could be some storms brewing along the coast and mushers have their 8 hour in White Mountain. Still plenty of race left.
You're never Nome until you're fully Nome.
