Iditarod 2024 – Day 9
There are some serious winds and wind chills around the Norton Sound.
Second Dog Dies:At approximately 10:00 a.m. today, George, a four-year-old male from the race team of Hunter Keefe (bib# 10), collapsed on the trail roughly 35 outside of Kaltag en route to Unalakleet.
Keefe Scratches: Veteran Iditarod musher, Hunter Keefe (bib #10), of Knik, Alaska scratched Sunday, March 10 at 11:30 p.m. at the Unalakleet checkpoint pursuant to Rule 42.
Naaktgeboren Scratches: Veteran Iditarod musher, Deke Naaktgeboren (bib #34), of Fairbanks, Alaska, scratched at 8:19 p.m. today at the Nulato checkpoint in the best interest of his team.
Burmeister Scratches: Veteran Iditarod musher, Aaron Burmeister (bib #29), of Nome/Nenana, Alaska, scratched at 11:00 a.m. today at the Unalakleet checkpoint. Burmeister’s reasoning for scratching is “to help promote the mental wellness and health of my team in the future.”
Standings at 11:00PM CDT (8:00PM AKDT):
Beyond Elim
1 Dallas Seavey (7)
Beyond Koyuk
2 Jessie Holmes (9)
3 Matt Hall (16)
4 Travis Beals (14)
At Koyuk
5 Jeff Deeter (18)
6 Paige Drobny (38)
7 Mille Porsild (12)
8 Jessie Royer (20)
9 Peter Kaiser (26)
10 Amanda Otto (28)
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Beyond Shaktoolik
11 Wally Robinson (39)
12 Jason Mackey (19)
13 Matthew Failor (31)
14 Nicolas Petit (17)
At Shaktoolik
15 Ryan Redington (21)
16 Josi Thyr (22)R
17 Jessica Klejka (8)
Beyond Unalakleet
18 Mats Pettersson (5)
19 Bailey Vitello (32)
20 Gabe Dunham (24)R
At Unalakleet
21 Anna Berington (2)
22 Will Rhodes (4)R
Beyond Kaltag
23 Anna Hennessy (25)R
24 Sean Williams (27)R
25 Calvin Daugherty (37)R
26 Lara Kittelson (36)R
27 Severin Cathry (30)R
28 Benjamin Good (33)R
29 Lauro Eklund (13)R
30 Jeff Reid (35)R
At Kaltag
31 Joshua Robbins (11)R
At Nulato
32 Bryce Mumford (6)R
The Mushers in bold are former winners of the Iditarod. The numbers in parentheses are their Bib numbers. The small “R” indicates a total 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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