Mushers Backgrounds
I’ll be throwing out things about the mushers as the race goes on, because a list of names isn’t very exciting.
First out, some of these people should have familiar names if you followed the Yukon Quest.
1 Dallas Seavey (21)
2 Sebastian Schnuelle (31)
3 Ken Anderson (43)
5 Kelley Griffin (20)
6 Allen Moore (5)
7 Jodi Bailey (16)R
These six people just finished the Quest and those are their finishing positions.
Three others started the Quest but had to scratch:
Hans Gatt (23)
Hugh Neff (35)
Michelle Phillips (39)
Another group of three finished the Yukon Quest 300:
1 Gerry Willomitzer (33)
4 Aliy Zirkle (18)
10 Jessie Royer (58)
Jody Bailey is attempting to do something for the first time, running rookie races in the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod in the same year. Given the conditions that had to be overcome in this year’s Quest, the smart money has to be on her achieving her goal.
While Hans Gatt has the worse case of frostbite, Sebastian Schnuelle and Hugh Neff didn’t get off much better. They will definitely feel it on the trail.
The newest addition to my Iditarod “widget” on the right sidebar is the Anchorage Daily News‘s Iditarod Blog, which, among other things, is running a series on mushers and their dogs.
