Aliy Zirkle leads what’s shaping up to be one of the most competitive Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Races. To hang on to her edge, she’ll have to fend off a hungry pack of frontrunners who should arrive in Galena, where she’s taking her mandatory eight-hour Yukon River layover, hours before she’ll be allowed to leave.Zirkle pulled into the Yukon River community to a cheering crowd, upbeat and ready to give her dogs a much-needed nap. They’d just made a long run and ahead was a second long haul through Nulato all the way to Kaltag, where the trail leaves the river before heading toward western Alaska’s Bering Sea coast.Read more here: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/iditarod-musher-aliy-zirkle-i-cant-really-complain-about-no-1
