Rainy Pass interviews with Jessie Royer, Matt Hall, Linwood Fiedler

03/05/19 • 12 min

This bonus Iditapod features three full interviews from the Iditarod's Rainy Pass checkpoint: Jessie Royer, Matt Hall and Linwood Fiedler. They were recorded by Alaska Public Media's Zachariah Hughes on Monday, March 4, 2019.

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S3E6: The first 100 miles

We check in from the trail, where mushers covered the first 100-plus miles from the Willow restart Sunday to the first checkpoints, Yentna and Skwentna, and on to Finger Lake. Alaska Public Media's Zachariah Hughes talked to mushers at Skwentna overnight, and we take a listener question on sled design. Also, today's episode features an extended interview with Ester musher Paige Drobny, an Iditarod veteran and one of a record field of female mushers.

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S3E7: Rainy Pass, race rookies and Rohn axe-throwing

In Episode 7, we talk to mushers making preparations at the Rainy Pass checkpoint, as well as some first-time Iditarod racers and... some volunteers staying entertained by throwing axes? Speaking of throwing axes (loosely), we also answer a question about what happens if you get hurt out on the trail.