Mar 18, 2016

Scenes from the Iditarod

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Eighty-five mushers began the nearly 1,000-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to Nome from Anchorage on March 6. As of early Friday afternoon, 62 mushers had reached Nome, 14 were out of the race and 9 remained on the trail. A person on a snowmobile drove into two dog teams competing in the Iditarod early Saturday, killing one dog and injuring at least three others. Mushers Aliy Zirkle and Jeff King were attacked a little more than halfway into the race to Nome.

: Fog obscures the burled arch over the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska, on Thursday, March 17, 2016. Eighty-five mushers began the nearly 1,000-mile race to Nome from Anchorage on March 6. As of Thursday morning, 43 mushers had reached Nome, 13 have scratched and 29 remain on the trail. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

: Mats Pettersson, of Sweden, mushes along the frozen Bering Sea coast outside Nome, Alaska, on Wednesday, March 16, 2016. He finished in 27th position of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

: A dog on the team of Iditarod musher Mats Pettersson of Kiruna, Sweden, licks his lips after getting a treat at the finish line in Nome, Alaska, on Wednesday, March 16, 2016. Pettersson finished in 27th position of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

: Dallas Seavey approaches the finish of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Tuesday, March 15, 2016, in Nome, Alaska. Seavey won his third straight Iditarod, for his fourth overall title in the last five years. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

: In this March 15, 2015 file photo, Jeff King is photographed after arriving at the Unalakleet, Alaska. checkpoint in the Iditarod. A person on a snowmobile drove into two dog teams competing in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Saturday March 12, 2016, killing one dog and injuring at least three others. Mushers Aliy Zirkle and Jeff King were attacked outside the village of, a community of 236 on the Yukon River a little more than halfway into the 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer) race to Nome. (Loren Holmes/Alaska Dispatch News via AP)

: Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher Mitch Seavey begins his race to Nome amongst a crowd of spectators Sunday, March 6, 2016 in Willow, Alaska. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)

: Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race musher Kelly Maixner begins his race to Nome amongst a crowd of spectators Sunday, March 6, 2016 in Willow, Alaska. (AP Photo/Michael Dinneen)

: In this March 16, 2015 file photo, Aliy Zirkle arrives at the Koyuk, Alaska, checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. A person on a snowmobile drove into two dog teams competing in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Saturday March 12, 2016, killing one dog and injuring at least three others. Mushers Aliy Zirkle and Jeff King were attacked outside the village of, a community of 236 on the Yukon River a little more than halfway into the 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer) race to Nome. (Loren Holmes/Alaska Dispatch News via AP)

: Mats Pettersson, of Sweden, mushes along the frozen Bering Sea coast outside Nome, Alaska, on Wednesday, March 16, 2016. He finished in 27th position in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

: Fog obscures the burled arch over the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska, on Thursday, March 17, 2017. Eighty-five mushers began the nearly 1,000-mile race to Nome from Anchorage on March 6. As of Thursday morning, 43 mushers had reached Nome, 13 have scratched and 29 remain on the trail. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

: In this March 15, 2016 file photo, Aliy Zirkle drives her dog team to the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Nome, Alaska. Zirkle says an attack by a man on a snowmobile lasted for two hours, and she felt like a hostage in the Alaska wilderness. The attack happened as mushers worked their way west on the Yukon River in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. Near the village of Nulato early Saturday, March 12 a man on a snowmobile separately attacked Zirkle and later, four-time Iditarod champion Jeff King. One of King’s dogs was killed, and others in both teams were injured. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

: Musher Aliy Zirkle drives her dog team to the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Tuesday, March 15 2016, in Nome, Alaska. Zirkle finished third in the race. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

: Alaska transplant John Suter and his racing poodles. When Suter saw a miniature poodle eagerly running to keep up with his snowmobile, an improbable thought occurred to him: Now there’s a sled dog. (Courtesy of John Suter)

Scenes from the Iditarod

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