Jeff is in the lead. He has left White Mountain. Aliy is into White Mountain. Some fast race due to all the ice. I hope if Jeff does get in he doesn't break Martin's record of 8days and whatever hours.
From the pictures it looks much colder with snow here and there---mostly ice.

Top photo: Martin Buser getting dogs rearranged after sliding on the glare ice out of Koyok

Second photo: Here is SHAKTOOLIK--I remember flying into Shaktoolik from Unalakleet to Nome.

                        We were delivering mail and picking up a traveller. It sure looked a bit barren from the 

                         air and it didn't change when we got closer.

Third photo:  One of the "dropped dogs" who will be flown to Anchorage--the Millennium Hotel--

                      where there are vets and where they keep him until the musher finishes the race and                 

                       picks him up.  He looks sad, to me, that he couldn't finish the race.!!
Last photo:    Jeff King with one of his lead dogs.His two lead dogs are mother and son pair. This pic
                      suggests what I think, that Jeff doesn't seem to be a people person but perhaps just a dog
                  .   person.

MONDAY MARCH 10,2014

I tried to get those two video's from a day ago to work but no luck so far. Just can't figure it out...yet...
The ones just above Abbie West's picture. This below is Abbie West crossing glare ice in 20 mph wind at Koyuk. Second pic is Abbie leading her dogs to the trail of Norton Sound.Not for the faint of heart!!

Report for the end of the day:
Sadly, for me anyway, Jeff King is now in the lead. He has won in the past and I just don't find him the friendliest person. He has said, many times, this is his last Iditarod and yet he comes back.
Aliy is second, by a hair, and Martin is third. Dallas Seavey is behind Martin and Dallas is KNOWN for his "sprint" to the end. He can put the pedal to the metal and hot foot it to Nome. He has won that way before. SOOO we'll see in the morning. I'm going to my nice warm bed and will thinking of them, possibly sleeping along the way on hay and stirring up some "grub" for themselves and the dogs.
You'd have to love it (mushing that is)!!
Abbie West is still in the pack and moving right along. She is in Unalakleet right now.

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Here's Abbie West, happy as can be.