Iditarod 2011 – Day 12
We start the day with all of the remaining teams on the coast of the Norton Sound.
Nicholas Petit (14) will take took the rookie race this morning and Jodi Bailey should has completed her Quest-Iditarod rookie runs later today.
Ellen Halverson (26) is looking good to enter the record books as the first musher to win the Red Lantern twice.
The “unkindest cut of all” – Karin Hendrickson (37) has scratched at White Mountain. She dropped three dogs when she came in, and has been waiting at the checkpoint beyond the 8-hours. She was probably hoping for the puppies to improve after extended rest, but decided to scratch. So close, and yet so far.
The first 17 teams made it to Nome in 10 days or less. [They subtract the mandatory 36 hours from the overall time.]
At Nome
16 Lance Mackey (17)
17 Michelle Phillips (39)
18 Martin Buser (11)
19 Robert Nelson (51)
20 Rick Swenson (49)
21 Cim Smyth (59)
22 Matt Hayashida (61)
23 Bruce Linton (13)
24 Allen Moore (5)
25 Trent Herbst (4)
26 Kelley Griffin (20)
27 Ed Stielstra (56)
28 Nicolas Petit (14)R
29 Kristy Berington (7)
30 Kelly Maixner (55)R
31 Jodi Bailey (16)R
32 Lachlan Clarke (42)
Beyond White Mountain
33 Magnus Kaltenborn (22)R
At White Mountain
34 Cain Carter (48)R
35 Paul Johnson (46)
Beyond Elim
36 Wattie McDonald (38)
37 Justin Savidis (63)
At Elim
38 Billy Snodgrass (24)
39 Gerald Sousa (62)
40 Matt Giblin (60)
At Koyuk
41 Tom Thurston (25)
42 Angie Taggart (19)R
43 Scott Janssen (32)R
Beyond Shaktoolik
44 Kirk Barnum (47)
45 G.B. Jones (40)
At Shaktoolik
46 Heather Siirtola (50)
47 Ellen Halverson (26) Φ
- The Mushers in bold are former winners of the Iditarod, the numbers in parentheses are their Bib numbers, and the small “R” indicates a rookie.
- 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.
- This post will be updated during the day, and the map changed on all posts to reflect the current situation.
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