Sass, Seavey rest dog teams along Iditarod Trail
Iditarod race leader Brent Sass is resting his team 40 miles out from the Unalakleet checkpoint, maintaining a 20-mile lead on five-time champion Dallas Seavey’s dog team, who is also resting. The pair of mushers have distanced themselves from much of the rest of the chase pack.
Seavey left the Kaltag checkpoint at 12:44 p.m. and ran his team for 37 miles before stopping to rest. Only two other musher — Jessie Holmes and Richie Diehl — has checked into Kaltag. Holmes has not yet left the checkpoint, and five other mushers are en route to Kaltag from Nulato.
Sass stopped over just after 5 p.m. along the trail to rest with just 299 miles between his team and Nome. Seavey’s chose to give his dogs a rest just after 4 p.m.
As the strategy of mushers deciding when to rest dogs and how many dogs they should keep on their line becomes more important, 7th place Mille Porsild and 9th place Chad Stoddard lead the top 10 with 13 dogs still leading their sleds. Aaron Burmeister — running in 4th place — and 8th place Mitch Seavey both have just nine dogs running ahead of their sleds.
Ryan Redington and Burmeister lead the group headed for Kaltag, and will arrive at the last checkpoint along the Yukon River shortly.
~ as of 6:45 pm yesterday. Stand by for updates.
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