Iditarod dogs reach checkpoint without their dozing musher
JUNEAU, Alaska — Add sleep to the already long list of hazards in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
A video posted on the official race website shows a dog team that arrived at a checkpoint without a musher. “Now you’ve seen it all, huh?” a man in the video says.
As the video scanned the faces of the mellow-mannered dogs, a man could be heard saying, “Where’s Linwood?”
That would be Linwood Fiedler, a race veteran. He arrived at the checkpoint about an hour behind his dogs after falling asleep and toppling off his sled, according to information accompanying the video.