Two Iditarod mushers were rescued from the trail on Friday in bad weather, just a few dozen miles from the finish line.
Gerhardt Thiart waves to people cheering along the Chester Creek Trail during the 2022 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage.
The statement reported a severe ground storm with very high winds over the Topkok Hills on the way to Safety, the checkpoint just 22 miles from the Nome finish line. A man on a snowmachine in the area found Thiart and helped him back to White Mountain, 77 miles from the finish line. Thiart had a leg injury.
Around the same time, rookie musher Bridgett Watkins called a family member asking to be helped off the tail.White Mountain search and rescue was notified. And Watkins’s husband, Scotty, also left Nome on a snowmachine with four other residents to help. “We will have the full details of the story later, but both Bridgett and Gerhardt suffered injuries and were assisted off the trail and to Nome,” it said. “She was flown here from White Mountain, has been checked by medical staff, and though she has some cold exposure and a broken clavicle, still has a radiant smile.”
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