IDITAROD: Special Coverage from APRN

This morning I reported that Tollef Monson, running John Baker’s puppy team, had passed Baker.  But that turns out not to be the way it looks to either Monson or Baker.  Annie Feidt, who interviewed Monson, says this is no puppy team and Monson is going for it – Baker has a big enough kennel to turn out two teams.  Meanwhile it appears that Baker is departing from the strategy that marked his breakthrough into the top ten, and is taking his 24-hour layover in McGrath, instead of closer to the Yukon River.

Those Kotzebue dogs continue to do well in trail conditions that are familiar to them.  Louie Nelson is moving up, and his Norwegian protégé, Sigurd Ekran, is the current front runner for rookie of the year.