It looks like Paige was a late addition to the field. I was looking at the musher list a few times and neither she nor honorary Hokie by marriage Cody Strathe were listed as running this year. But when I looked earlier today, she was listed as 1 of 33 mushers in the field. 7 mushers have dropped out.
No Dallas Seavey this year, but his father, 3 time winner Mitch Seavey, is back in the race for the first time since 2022.
Big story so far is the lack of snow on the southern part of the trail. This is forcing the ceremonial start in Anchorage to be shortened and the real race start to be moved to Fairbanks. This actually follows more of the route that actually occurred during the serum run in 1925. The serum was drooped off the train at Nenana for the dogsled relay to Nome. Nenana is the first checkpoint on the trail itself this year. Mushers will go west from Fairbanks and eventually cut south down to Anvik, with is part of the normal odd year southern route. Then they will come back up north to the sea coast across it, and on to Nome.
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