Wind chill along the river could get as low as minus 55 in the coming days, with no relief down the trail at the Norton Sound coast.
Updated: 11 hours agoMusher Travis Beals sprints to his sled before departing the Cripple checkpoint in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Thursday, March 7, 2024.
As of Friday morning, veteran Travis Beals of Seward, now living in Knik, had a slight edge over other teams in the front pack. Beals has been keeping a consistent schedule of four-hour rests in between roughly six-hour runs, though he stretched his last leg on the way into Ruby to about eight hours.The 32-year-old, who has completed nine Iditarods and finished as high as fifth place, started this year’s race sick and hasn’t fully recovered.
“It seemed like they have more speed than everybody else around me right now,” Holmes said of his dogs. “I made up an hour and 25, 30 minutes on Travis since my camp.”
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