How bad were the warned-about Iditarod trail moguls? Well, depends who you ask. “Probably the best I’ve ever seen it,' said Richie Diehl. But Kelly Maixner's take? 'It was as bad as I’ve ever seen it,' he said.
A team approaches Nikolai on Tuesday, about a quarter of the way into the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
Kelly Maixner said his back ached from the run, despite the Ironman Triathlon finisher’s athleticism. For mushers who decided to stop in Nikolai, the checkpoint was a good spot to recover from their aches and work on their sleds. . But it wasn’t his wrist that bothered him as he cut open his bags filled with extra gear. Instead, he said, it was his knee.
The sun — and the difficult trail behind them — factored into the decisions of the many mushers who decided to stop and rest here. Temperatures soared above freezing by the afternoon, about 15 degrees above average for the village of about 100 people.
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