Beginning of the End

Mackey took it! There is lots of coverage, so I'll let you read about it for yourself. Mushers will be pounding into Nome for quite awhile. The Rookie of the Year looks to be Sigrid Ekran, who is just a few hours from Nome now. The back of the pack is just past the halfway point, and there are forty nine teams still out on the trail. The Red Lantern award, which goes to the last musher to safely finish any distance event, will bring it all to a close in several days time.

Since flying out to Nome is out of the question, I'll leave you with a few more of the shots I got of Mackey when he won the Quest last month. I'm sure we'll be seeing the brand new truck that came with last night's victory, which he plans to make "one of a kind" with a new paint job, roaring around town before April. Long after this year's fairy-tale ending fades, Mackey will remain, as another northern blogger dubbed him, "Alaska's Favorite Redneck."