Arriving in second place, 20 minutes behind Dee Dee Jonrowe, Chuck Schaeffer set out on the trail about 1:30 am, about an hour before other mushers. Tracker shows him currently leading halfway back to Unalakleet from Kaltag.Jonrowe left Kaltag about 2:20 followed by Aaron Burmeister and Team Kaiser around 2:30am.
Currently (7:00am) the Tracker shows the interval holding pretty steady as teams make their way through the hilly trail back to Unalakleet.
All trackers are back online and all mushers have returned to the trail. I would expect to see mushers into Unalakleet around noon today. The Schaeffer team is only 11 dogs, but at this point in the race we have seen several teams (Ramey Smyth) in the Iditarod do very well with a small team. Teams are still very close together with many miles ahead that will begin to filter out the story of this race.
All times shown here are from the Tracker, but it has been pretty accurate over the course of the races.
Stay tuned! Go Team Kaiser!
Unalakleet Mushing Weather:
.TODAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY. PATCHY FOG. SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON. HIGHS 2 TO 11 ABOVE. NORTHEAST WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH.
