The winner is expected to drive their sled dog team down Nome's Front Street to the iconic burled arch finish line in about 10 days. They will travel nearly 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) over the unforgiving Alaska winterscape, climbing over two mountain ranges, mushing on frozen rivers and streams and across the treacherous Bering Sea ice.
Other mushers left in two-minute intervals. Competitors will travel travel nearly 1,000 miles and the winner is expected to take about 10 days. Holmes works as a carpenter and appears on the reality television show 'Life Below Zero.' The race to Nome began Sunday for 33 mushers in this years Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. an Alabama native living in the Alaska community of Brushkana, was the first musher to leave across a frozen lake about 70 miles (112 kilometers) north of Anchorage. WILLOW, Alaska - The race to Nome began Sunday for 33 mushers in this year's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska. The smallest field ever of only 33 mushers will start the competitive portion of the Iditarod Sunday, March 5, 2023, in Willow, Alaska. (Mizelle Mayo/Alaska Public Media) Temperatures hovered around zero degrees in. Attentive sled dogs await the start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race's ceremonial start in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, on Saturday, March 4, 2023. Two Iditarod sled dogs excitedly wait for the ceremonial start to begin in Anchorage on Saturday.
