Through the Lens: Iditarod

After over 9 months in Northwest Alaska, I have finally returned to the lower-48 and the warm, sunny state of Florida. Over the next few days, I'll try to finish posting photos and reflections from my last couple weeks in Nome, starting with the best of my Iditarod pics.

The crowd awaits the first musher, late Tuesday night

Winning musher Mitch Seavey arrives around 10:30pm

Aliy Zirkle arrives in 2nd place around 11pm 

The media mobs Mitch Seavey at the finish line

Jeff King arrives in 3rd place

Mitch Seavey and Aliy Zirkle less than an hour after arrival

One of the sled dogs

Martin Buser passing in front of my office building

Brent Sass looking epic

Jim Lanier's dogs need a little guidance getting to the finish ;)

John Baker heads down the home stretch

Lance Mackey looking exhausted

Dog close-ups

Final musher Christine Roalofs jogs out from the finish with her dogs

Shaking off some snow

Mush!

As you can imagine, it's been an absolutely insane week and I have so many stories and pictures to share but still no time! Iditarod week was a blast and ended with the most spectacular northern lights I've seen to date.  This week I have a ton of wrap-up work to do, plus I have to pack up my life again (it's amazing how settled-in one becomes in 9 months), and start heading home. 

I will try to post pictures later this week, but for now enjoy the GoPro video I took on my dog sledding trip this weekend. So much fun, and super glad I got to give it a go while I'm up here! 

Mush!

Instead of watching the Superbowl on Sunday, I found myself at a dog sled race, driving a snowmachine. A friend from town was helping out with the Nome Kennel Club Dog Sled Race, and offered to let my roommate and I borrow his snowmachine to go out on the trail and take photos.