Iditarod XL Day 1

Ray Redington Jr. led off at 2PM AKST [5PM CST] but his brother Ryan won’t get to leave until 4:10PM AKST [7:10PM CST].

The sun sets at 6:34PM AKST, but the moon is 86% full tonight and the skies are forecast to be clear. The temperature at start time was 19° F [-7° C]. There is snow forecast from Willow to Skwentna tomorrow, with temperatures in single digits.

Things should be fast for the teams up front, but the back of the pack will probably being pushing snow as the sleds in front degrade the trail.

I will wait until later to post positions, which are still in the parade order from yesterday.

Ray made it to Yentna at 5:44PM AKST [8:44PM CST] and left five minutes later.

At 11:30PM CST:

Beyond Yentna
1 Ray Redington Jr (2)
2 Jodi Bailey (6)
3 Tom Thurston (5)
4 William Pinkham (4)
5 Cim Smyth (8)
6 Jeff King (10)
7 Nicolas Petit (9)
8 DeeDee Jonrowe (17)
9 Aliy Zirkle (14)
10 Kelley Griffin (20)

11 Kelly Maixner (12)
12 Trent Herbst (16)
13 Lance Mackey (18)
14 Sigrid Ekran (24)
15 Michelle Phillips (26)
16 Michael Suprenant (13)
17 John Baker (11)
18 Travis Cooper(19)^R
19 Mike Santos (22)^R
20 Hugh Neff (27)
21 Bruce Linton (36)
22 Ramey Smyth (21)
23 Gerry Willomitzer (23)
24 Anjanette Steer (32)^R
25 Peter Kaiser (28)
26 Jaimee Kinzer (30)^R
27 Dallas Seavey (34)
28 Mitch Seavey (35)
29 Justin Savidis (38)
30 Kristy Berington (31)
31 Martin Buser (41)
32 Jake Berkowitz (29)
33 Anna Berington (33)^R
34 Colleen Robertia (42)
35 Ed Stielstra (45)
At Yentna
36 Wade Marrs (7)
37 Paul Gebhardt (25)
38 Pat Moon (15)^R
39 Scott Janssen (37)
40 Zoya DeNure (53)
41 Ryne Olson (46)^R
42 Aaron Burmeister (44)
43 Ken Anderson (39)
Beyond Willow
44 Jim Lanier (3)
45 Jan Steves (40)^R
46 Karin Hendrickson (43)
47 Kirk Barnum (47)
48 Hank Debruin (48)^Q
49 Bob Chlupach (49)
50 Brent Sass (50)^Q
51 Michael Williams Jr (51)
52 Matt Giblin (52)
53 Silvia Furtwдngler (54)^R
54 Josh Cadzow (55)^Q
55 Karen Ramstead (56)
56 Matt Failor (57)^R
57 Gerald Sousa (58)
58 Sonny Lindner (59)
59 Rick Swenson (60)
60 Curt Perano (61)^R
61 Rohn Buser (62)
62 Braxton Peterson (63)^R
63 Art Church Jr (64)
64 Dan Seavey (65)
65 Lachlan Clarke (66)
66 Ryan Redington (67)

The Mushers in bold are former winners of the Iditarod, while italics indicates Yukon Quest winners. The numbers in parentheses are their Bib numbers. The small “R” indicates a total rookie, while the small “Q” indicates an Iditarod rookie who has completed a Yukon Quest.

These are the official standings. That means they are official, not that they are correct. Things jump around a lot as people decide to update the standings. This problem is especially bad in the back of the pack, as no one bothers to update those standings when the lead is changing.

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