Hans Gatt’s team was the first to arrive in Central Sunday evening.
Mackey’s lead dogs snack on beef and fish heads at the Central checkpoint.
Michelle Phillips and her team make the run to the Mile 101 dog drop. Trail breakers routed around glare ice and open leads as much as possible, but mushers still arrived at Mile 101 with their feet and legs covered in ice.
The leaders are due in Circle any time, while miles back 4 teams are stalled out in a blizzard. Hans Gatt, Hugh Neff, and Lance Mackey were the first mushers out of Central last night between 5 and 7 o'clock. The trio did not rest at the checkpoint and headed out toward Circle, presumably camped along the trail somewhere. Dan Bross and Libby Casey have the details.
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The teams are on the trail to Circle, and the race has its first scratches. Hans Gatt was the first to arrive in the Central checkpoint last night. He stopped for just 11 minutes, long enough to grab food bags and straw, before pulling the snow hook and leaving. Dan Bross and Libby Casey have more.
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At Mile 101, Phillips knocks the ice off her boots so she can remove them.
Richie Beattie of Fairbanks (right) sits with his handlers outside the Mile 101 cabin. He was the first rookie to reach the dog drop, 140 miles away from the Fairbanks start.
The view from the Steese Highway Sunday morning gives a sense of the landscape mushers were experiencing on the trail.
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