Where's that alarm clock? Here’s what 5 Iditarod mushers say they’ve lost along the trail.
Mushers in the Iditarod have a lot to keep track of. Aside from food and booties for their dogs, there are things like headlamps, snow hooks, ski poles and electronics.We asked five mushers about what items they’d left behind. Here are their answers.A Grayling resident hands a Reese’s peanut butter cupcake to Ryan Redington before he departs.
“Two things. My headlight, it was bad from the beginning, and my alarm clock went bad. Luckily I gave one to another musher and I told that musher and he gave it back to me, it was Hunter Keefe. I beat my alarm clock every time except for today . It woke me up today, so I was glad to have it back.”“I lost my inReach, but I picked up Dallas’s so hopefully I’ll have some good karma from that and someone’s gonna pick up mine.
“I did leave my headlamp at Don’s cabin, 40 miles from Iditarod, while I was camping. I went from Takotna to Don’s and camped. I went inside the cabin just for a little bit — I slept outside — but went in the cabin and left my headlamp in there.
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