“It feels like it’s 100 degrees,” said Iditarod musher Wade Marrs. Our photos from a sunny and warm-for-winter Rainy Pass checkpoint:
Dogs sunbathe on the snow at the Rainy Pass checkpoint on Monday. With temperatures around 40 degrees, some mushers didn’t put down the usual bedding for the dogs so that they could cool down.
Mushers shed layers. Dogs sunbathed. Tourists flown in on charter planes snapped photos under a hot sun.The Rainy Pass checkpoint is about 150 miles into the race and, tucked into the Alaska Range, it’s a scenic place to wait out the heat.By the time teams arrived in Rainy Pass, they had already navigated some early challenges, including the Happy River Steps, but faced the trickier trail ahead through Dalzell Gorge. Eddie Burke Jr. snacks on Kuskokwim River dried salmon.
TV crews film Wade Marrs’ team arriving in Rainy Pass. “It feels like it’s 100 degrees,” said Marrs.
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