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WASILLA — Mitch Seavey cashed in again.
A day after pocketing $3,000 as the first musher to reach the midway point at Huslia, the Seward musher added another $2,000 to his personal pot after he was the first to hit Kaltag in the 2017 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. As an added bonus, Seavey will also snag 25 pounds worth of fresh-caught Bristol Bay salmon, part of the prize for winning the Bristol Bay Native Corporation Fish First Award, the honor that goes to the first musher into Kaltag.
Seavey, a two-time champ who won it all in 2004 and again in 2013, reached Kaltag at 7:40 p.m. Saturday night. He made the 47-mile jaunt on the Yukon River from Nulato to Kaltag in just less than four hours.
From Kaltag it’s off to Unalakleet and the Bearing Sea Coast.
As of 8:45 p.m. Saturday, Wade Marrs, sitting in second place, had left Nulato in search of Kaltag. Two others — Dallas Seavey and Nicolas Petit — were on their way from Koyukuk to Nulato. Sixty-nine mushers remain on the trail.
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