As Iditarod mushers began to cross the Alaska Range on Monday, warm weather coaxed many teams into midday rest ahead of the Rainy Pass. Via ADNIditarod
Iditarod mushers are in the mountains, crossing the Alaska Range and some of the most technically challenging terrain of the trail.
By Monday afternoon, the distance between the front and back of the pack was less than 60 miles. The 33-team field stretched from the checkpoint at Finger Lake all the way past the Rainy Pass Lodge almost to Rohn, the sparse shelter-cabin checkpoint near the Tatina River where mushers will arrive all evening and over night.
So far mushers report good trail conditions heading past the Happy River steps and up to the Rainy Pass checkpoint at Puntilla Lake. One curveball on Monday, however, was the weather: lots of sun and warm weather that topped out at 41 degrees in the early afternoon. “It’s just a little bit too warm now. So we’ll just stay here until the sun goes down,” musher Dan Kaduce told
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