By the time most of you read this post, the 2007 Iditarod will be officially over.
The last musher left the Safety checkpoint — just 22 miles from Nome — on Tuesday night (3/20) at 11:04 p.m. And it looks like the Red Lantern winner this year will be Ellen Halverson, a rookie musher from Wasilla, Alaska. Halverson was preceeded by next-to-last musher Donald Smidt.
Congratulations to these two for taking on the Iditarod challenge and seeing it through all the way to the end.
In total, some 58 mushers completed the 1,100-mile Iditarod this year. Another 23 mushers scratched from the race, many of them seriously injured by bad trail conditions mixed with bad luck. And one musher, as we all know, was disqualified. Of the 58 finishers, 20 were rookies — a full third of the field.
APRN’s coverage of the race has pretty much wound down at this point. We may post a few more pieces in the coming days, weeks and months, depending on the news cycle related to the race. In the mean time, thanks for visiting with us this year, thanks for sharing your comments and a special thanks goes out to the Crow Village Iditarod Blog — it was a pleasure having Tom on our site.
We look forward to covering the Iditarod again next year!
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