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Run up Norton Sound Coast Sets Stage for Iditarod Finish Dallas Seavey Photo by Diana Haecker NOME-GOLOVIN 200— Bob Saccheus takes off at the start line of the 47th Nome-Golovin snowmachine race, held on Saturday, March 14. See story on page 12. C VOLUME CXV NO. 11 March 19, 2015 Dallas Seavey wins! By Diana Haecker rival and competitor during the dog At 4:13 a.m. on March 18, Dallas race, Seavey said, “We push each Seavey did it again. He crossed the other. What son wants to be bested finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled by his dad and what father wants to Dog race under the Burled Arch in be beat by his son?” Seavey went on Nome as the repeat champion, driv- to say that in training, he and his fa- ing a lively dog team into the finish ther are constantly on the phone, chute with nine dogs at the gang line, talking about dogs, and anything re- one riding in the sled. lated to sled dog racing. “We share a This marks Dallas Seavey’s third lot of ideas, but the real good ideas Iditarod victory as he won in 2012 we keep to ourselves,” Seavey said and 2014. with a chuckle. After stepping off the sled runners Seavey said he raced a young to a cheering crowd that came out on team consisting of mostly three-year this windless, 12°F night, Seavey old dogs that he raised. He talked first went down the line to thank about the trust between him and his each of his dogs for the ride. When dogs, and he talked about the pa- he reached leaders Reef and Hero, he tience and restraint he had to exer- said, “We got’er done. We really cise to let the competition run itself have it in the bag now.” out and then pass the front runners Seavey was alluding to last year’s with a faster and better-rested dog surprise victory, when he found him- team. As if to make the point, lead self unknowingly in first position, as dog Reef pounced around the finish a ferocious storm forced race leader chute and tried to animate his team Jeff King to scratch and runner-up mate Hero to play with him, a sure Aliy Zirkle to hole up at Safety. sign of energy abundance after a Not this year. long race. However, Seavey repeatedly said “One of my high points was to see he did not want to think too much my dogs leave every checkpoint, about the victory within grasp. bombing down the trail,” Seavey “I had a fast dog team, a big lead said. “For every ten minutes more of and was the first out of White Moun- rest I gave the dogs, they gave me a tain - that was exactly the position tenth of a mile more speed down the that Jeff was in last year,” Seavey trail,” Seavey said. said. Weather this year cooperated Seavey was greeted at the finish and the 27-year old Willow musher line by his family, including his had from White Mountain to Nome a grandfather Dan Seavey who helped good trail, no wind and just a little start the Iditarod Sled Dog race in dusting of snow to contend with. 1973, his wife Jen, also an Iditarod Yet, Seavey said he was super finisher, his mother, brothers and careful on the way to not make a sin- nieces. gle mistake. After all, his father After being checked in by Leo Mitch, 2004 and 2013 Iditarod Rasmussen, the dogs were ushered champion, was the second musher to down the street into the Iditarod dog Photo by Diana Haecker leave White Mountain 4 hours and lot and the champion, tired but exu- 2015 IDITAROD CHAMPION— Dallas Seavey, 27, and his lead dogs Reef, left, and Hero, right, bask in the 10 minutes after Dallas. berant, summed up his fantastic race limelight after cinching their second Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race victory in a row. Seavey won the 1,000-mile Asked about his relationship with for media and fans at the Mini Con- race in eight days, 18 hours, 13 minutes and 6 seconds on the trail. is father who also happens to be his vention Center. Run up Norton Sound coast sets stage for Iditarod finish By Keith Conger dog race checkpoint. building to a small, level patch of left Shaktoolik. He told reporters pecting a snow squall to dump six Esther Kimoktoak has the perfect Kimoktoak says she is the oldest road where the dogs rest. that everything had gone right in the inches of fresh snow on us, too,” name for an Iditarod fan. “My name resident in the beautifully wooded, Darin Douglas has been the head race until this last run. “I was ex- means ‘pulling’,” said the 84-year- coastal Norton Bay community checker in Koyuk since taking over pecting high winds, but I wasn’t ex- continued on page 20 old Koyuk Elder as she waited pa- where she was born, and her love of the job from his father Raymond in tiently for the sled dog race leaders mushing goes way back. Her hus- 2006. He and his crew of 15 quickly on Monday morning. band Albert was the last person in delivered bales of straw along with She was taking a break from the town to own a dog team, and she the food drop bags. near zero temperatures by slowly doesn’t have a favorite musher. “I try Although only a few feet apart, sipping a cup of coffee inside the to love them all,” she says. the Seavey and Burmeister were un- Koyuk City Building that had been Kimoktoak never misses the first able to see each other as the throng transformed into a Iditarod Trail sled musher arriving in Koyuk. of heavily clad mushing supporters, This year she almost watched media reporters, sightseers and a Aaron Burmeister come into town as crowd of Koyuk’s school-aged chil- On the Web: the race leader, but the Nenana-based dren on spring break created a www.nomenugget.net musher, who was born and raised in human wall down the center of the Nome, was passed on the trail by road. E-mail: Dallas Seavey of Willow out on the As three Iditarod veterinarians ex- [email protected] sea ice just a half-mile outside of amined each of Seavey’s and Koyuk. Burmeister’s 12 dogs, the mushers Blaze-orange topped stakes line performed their checkpoint dog care the trail like matchsticks, standing in duties and entertained questions Photo by Peggy Fagerstrom stark contrast to the overcast skies. from the media. Burmeister had left THE SEAVEY CLAN— Defending Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey At 12:34 p.m. they led Seavey, and the last checkpoint an hour and 20 leaves Koyuk, front, just as his father Mitch Seavey, 2004 and 2013 Idi- three minutes afterwards Burmeister, minutes prior to Seavey and had pre- tarod champ, drives his dog team into the checkpoint, on Monday, off the ice and past the checkpoint pared to make his big move when he March 16. Aaron Burmeister’s dog team is bedded down for a rest on the side. 2 THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2015 OPINION THE NOME NUGGET Letters Nancy, people I have ever played for. It was way. And of course, the wonderful Teachers programs) assist our little Policy, (5 AAC 96.625(f)), an emer- It has been about 40 years since I a night I will never forget. Such a people. ones to come to the K-12 system gency is defined as “an unforeseen, visited Nome my one and only time. great dance! I remember singing the Nome left a very big impression ready to learn. According to the Mc- unexpected event that…threatens a I have never forgotten it or the peo- song that was the hit of the night: on me. I haven’t been to a lot of Dowell Group, investing in children fish or game resource.” ple. I grew up in Fairbanks. In high (I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone by places in this world. I am always at young ages results in economic The petition argued that this is school (Lathrop, class of 75), I was Paul Revere and the Raiders. happy to remember that one of those benefit later. Dr. James Heckman, a clearly the case, and that the “re- in a rock and roll band. The people This year I have been following few places was Nome. I never took recipient of the Nobel Prize in Eco- source” that is threatened in this case of Nome flew us all the way with our the Iditarod online. I was remember- the time to properly say thank you, nomics, stated “investing in early is the viewing success of Denali music equipment to play for a senior ing Nome, so I was reading about it so I am saying it now. childhood education…shows a 7% to wolves by the 400,000 + visitors that prom and a town dance. We were just and looking at pictures and maps. Thank you, 10% per year return on invest- come to the park each year. high school kids. I remember the When I typed in the only name I re- Greg Turner ment…” He further states, …”one The Board and ADFG disagree weather was rough so we landed in membered from my visit, I came 121 Canyon Forest Way of the most effective strategies for that the viewing success of Denali Kotzebue before going on to Nome. across The Nome Nugget .
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