A lot can go wrong during a 1,000-mile sled dog race in remote Alaska. And certainly something will. From wet river crossings to wrong turns, six Iditarod mushers share their most frustrating mishaps on this year’s course.
A lot can go wrong during a 1,000-mile sled dog race in remote Alaska.From wet river crossings to wrong turns, six Iditarod mushers share their most frustrating mishaps on this year’s course.wet feet and an accidental tour of GalenaGoing down the Dalzell Gorge there’s some open water about shin-deep and instead of trying to have my dogs do it — I didn’t think they could do it, but they could — I just jumped in it in my boots and led them across.
Someone on a snowmachine found me and said, ‘Hey, go this way!’ But I think I did an extra three miles. I was just kind of along for the ride. The sled runner that Mitch Seavey and Pete Kaiser helped repair. If you blow through Rohn like a lot of people do, it’s kinda a rushed express lane cause there’s other people coming in and there’s limited help, so you wanna get your food, your straw and most importantly your HEET heating fuel. I had gone 300 yards down the narrow trail — almost to the point of no return because once you go out on the ice, good luck stopping. And I’m doing the check in my head and I realized: Uh oh, no HEET.
I guess I wasn’t paying enough attention and I just slammed down super hard coming down the Unalakleet River into Unalakleet. My sled fell on its side and I got dragged for a half a mile down the river. I could’ve put the snow hook in, but I didn’t wanna yank them and have them crash and fall. I just rode it out, I just waited until they finally listened to me. Dan Kaduce at the Finger Lake checkpoint last Monday.
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