Mushers encounter a multitude of variables in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race across Alaska
Musher Richie Diehl, wearing big No. 15, mushes down Fourth Avenue during the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Saturday, March 4, 2023, in Anchorage, Alaska. Warm weather is making it tough sledding for mushers in this year's Iditarod, and Diehl said the conditions could be"soft and punchy." ANCHORAGE, Alaska — — Mushers and their dogs in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race face plenty of variables in the Alaska wilderness.
But it’s still warm and sunny, and it’s having noticeable effects on people who are exposed to it, Brettschneider said. Along the Iditarod race route, the community of McGrath didn’t set records but had a high Wednesday of 36 degrees Fahrenheit , 14 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. More telling was a low temperature of 27 degrees Fahrenheit .That warmth was evident all along the Iditarod trail Wednesday. “There’s almost no places that were below freezing along the route,” he said.
Kelly Maixner, a pediatric dentist, said his dogs don’t like the heat, and he'd rather it be minus -20 degrees Fahrenheit ., mushers must take one 24-hour layover at a checkpoint to rest. Part of where to take that layover plays into the strategy of most every musher. “It could be soft and punchy out there, and who knows how the hills are going into Iditarod,” Richie Diehl told the TV crew. “It could be big tussocks just like a couple of years ago, and it could be a brutal run, you know, with the rolling hills and possibly barren tundra.” Tussocks are clumps of grass.
Riley Dyche of Fairbanks took his 24-hour break before reaching Iditarod because he didn’t want to run his dogs in the heat of the day. That likely cost him either $3,000 in gold nuggets or a new smart phone, the prize given to the first musher at the halfway point.
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