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WASILLA — A former champ leads the 2017 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race at the midway mark.
Mitch Seavey, who won it all in 2004 and 2013, hit Huslia at 8:18 p.m. Thursday. As of 9 p.m. Thursday, Seavey was the lone musher in Huslia, an Interior community known for being the home of a mushing legend, the late George Attla.
Seavey, of Seward, left Galena at 8:17 a.m. Wednesday, and needed just about a dozen hours to make the 82-mile trek to Huslia.
Jessie Royer and Michelle Phillips were the next to leave Galena, departing at 12:42 p.m. ad 12:43 p.m.
By reaching Huslia first, Seavey earned the Dorothy G. Page Halfway Award. With the honor comes $3,000 in gold nuggets. The award is named for the late Wasilla woman known as the “Mother of the Iditarod.”
As of 9 p.m., six mushers, in addition to Royer and Phillips, were on the trail between Galena and Huslia.
Ralph Johannessen, John Baker, Nicholas Petit, Noah Burmeister, Hugh Neff and Hans Gatt were also en route to Galena.
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