Iditarod 2014 – Day 6
Jeff King is the first to the Yukon, but the top five need to take their 24-hour rest, and there is an 8-hour required on the Yukon.
Lev Shvarts ended his race at Rohn with a scratch, joining a dozen others.
At Ruby
1 Jeff King (17)
2 Sonny Lindner (70)
Beyond Cripple
3 Martin Buser (36)
4 Aliy Zirkle (10)
5 Robert Sørlie (22)
6 Kelly Maixner (13)
7 Nicolas Petit (29)
8 Mitch Seavey (6)
9 Hans Gatt (58)
At Cripple
10 Aaron Burmeister (23)
11 John Baker (53)
12 Paul Gebhardt (35)
13 Hugh Neff (61)
14 Ray Redington Jr (51)
15 Michael Williams, Jr. (7)
16 Dallas Seavey (14)
17 Joar Leifseth Ulsom (47)
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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Just came across an interesting event yesterday. Another team had some trouble on the Farewell Burn area that didn’t get a lot of press, but it was pretty rough for the guy involved. It was an Australian, Christian Turner. He went over a stump that tore out the bottom of his sled and broke the line. He was left with two dogs attached to a smashed sled with the others hightailing it as fast as they could go.
Here’s the article: Aussie musher
It also discusses how bad the Farewell Burn was this year for many.
He was lucky he had enough sled to continue, Jake Berkowitz’s sled was totaled on the Burn and he had to hit the panic button to have them bring another sled to get the dogs to the checkpoint. Martin Buser’s foot got slammed by a stump and is badly sprained.
All of the stuff that is normally under a foot of snow is now able to beat up mushers and sleds. The dogs will run to each side, but the sled is going to get hit. With mushers standing on the brake pad to slow the team down, their feet are vulnerable.
Curt Perano is a ‘neighbor’ of Christian’s – he’s from New Zealand.