Iditarod 2021

Dallas Seavey has started his final 8hr rest period at the Skwentna-South checkpoint.

Seavey and Burmeister neck and neck into the Skwentna-South checkpoint.

Aaron Burmeister was the first musher into Rohn southbound this afternoon. He pulled into Rohn southbound at 4:26 this afternoon and he has all 14 dogs on the line. His team has less than 200 miles to go.

Man in black baseball hat and black puffy jacket standing on a busy Anchorage street.

Peter Kaiser and Riley Dyche scratched from this year’s race last evening.

Silhouette of musher wearing headlamp at night, looking down

Aaron Burmeister was the first out of Nikolai South. All Top 5 teams have taken their mandatory floating 8-hour rest. Now it is a mad dash to Skwentna, where all mushing teams take another mandatory 8 hour break.

Seavey keeps steady lead, but Sass, Marrs, Redington, and Nome’s Burmeister are hot on his heels.

Seavey maintains his lead by a few hours. He still does have to take an eight hour break, as per races rules. He can take that here in McGrath, or in Nikolai or Takotna. Sass must also take that eight-hour layover. Meanwhile, Ryan Redington and Aaron Burmeister, in fourth and fifth positions, have taken that required layover. That could give them a strategic advantage as the race continues.

Man carrying big white bag on back outside in the winter.

Contract tracing is underway to identify two mushers in close quarters with Gunnar Johnson. Seavey leads the mushers out of Ophir-South.

Seavey is in first position out of Iditarod, headed back on the Gold Trail Loop to Deshka Landing.

Women of the trail have not proven that they can “run with the big dogs.” They are the big dogs. KNOM shares a bit about the history of female mushers in the Last Great Race.