Iditarod – Day 8

The field is shrinking. Linwood Fiedler (2) scratched at McGrath with 11 unhappy dogs. They just didn’t want to continue, so there was no point.

Tom Thurston (68) made it to Ophir with 9 dogs left but they weren’t happy puppies, so he scratched and went back to McGrath where there is a good road to load them on his truck.

Karen Ramstead (29) scratched at McGrath with 14 happy purebred Siberian Huskies, that are considered the best looking team on the trail, for personal reasons.

Rookie Justin Savidis (10) had a 3-year dog, White, slip his harness between McGrath and Nikolai on March 10, and can’t go on until the dog is located. There is a search underway, but it looks like Justin’s Iditarod is probably over. He assumes that the wheel dog got spooked by something, because he is normally a happy, friendly dog.

Beyond Kaltag
1 Lance Mackey (49)
2 Hans Gatt (20)
3 Jeff King (15)
4 Hugh Neff (56)

At Kaltag
5 Mitch Seavey (41)
6 John Baker (8)

Beyond Nulato
7 Ken Anderson (51)
8 Sonny Lindner (44)
9 Sebastian Schnuelle (35)
10 Gerry Willomitzer (55)
11 Sven Haltmann (42)

At Nulato
12 Dallas Seavey (19)
13 Aliy Zirkle (50)
14 Ramey Smyth (21)
15 Rick Swenson (57)
16 Zack Steer (47)
17 Ray Redington, Jr (9)
18 Cim Smyth (3)
19 Jessie Royer (6)
20 Martin Buser (37)
21 Jason Barron (71)
22 Paul Gebhardt (7)

Beyond Galena
23 Jim Lanier (43)
24 Dan Kaduce (64)^R
25 DeeDee Jonrowe (31)
26 Bruce Linton (65)
27 Gerald Sousa (48)
28 Michelle Phillips (36)^R

At Galena
29 Michael Williams, Jr. (59)^R
30 Robert Nelson (32)
31 Ryan Redington (25)
32 Warren Palfrey (27)
33 Judy Currier (72)
34 Peter Kaiser (67)^R
35 Thomas Lesatz (62)
36 William “Middie” Johnson (16)^R

Beyond Ruby
37 Quinn Iten (28)^R
38 Colleen Robertia (61)^R
39 Matt Hayashida (12)
40 Allen Moore (54)
41 William Pinkham (40)
42 Kristy Berington (38)^R

At Ruby
43 Cindy Gallea (39)
44 Blake Freking (11)
45 Lachlan Clarke (63)
46 Billy Snodgrass (70)
47 Wattie McDonald (4)^R

Beyond Cripple
48 Art Church, Jr (24)
49 Tamara Rose (26)^R
50 Dave DeCaro (52)^R
51 Scott White (13)^R
52 John Stewart (69)^R
53 Newton Marshall (14)^R
54 Sam Deltour (66)
55 Trent Herbst (60)

At Cripple
56 Chris Adkins (33)^R
57 Ross Adam (18)
58 Jane Faulkner (22)^R
59 Celeste Davis (58)^R

Beyond Ophir
60 Emil Churchin (53)^R
61 Hank Debruin (45)^R

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.

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