alaskapublicmedia: Aliy Zirkle getting ready to leave White Mountain. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA)
alaskapublicmedia: Brent Sass at the White Mountain checkpoint waiting for his 8 hour mandatory rest to end. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA)
alaskapublicmedia: Brent Sass just before his first attempt at departing White Mountain. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA)
alaskapublicmedia: Brent Sass's dogs did no want to leave White Mountain. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA)
alaskapublicmedia: Brent Sass's dogs did not want to leave White Mountain. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA)
alaskapublicmedia: Brent Sass couldn't get his dogs to leave White Mountain. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA)
alaskapublicmedia: Joar Ulsom arriving in White Mountain. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA)
alaskapublicmedia: Mushers working on their sleds and teams below the dancing auroras in White Mountain (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA)
alaskapublicmedia: Mushers working on their sleds and teams below the dancing auroras in White Mountain. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA)
alaskapublicmedia: Pete Kaiser getting water from the hole in the ice cut into the Fish River at the checkpoint. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA.)
alaskapublicmedia: Pete Kaiser mushing into the White Mountain checkpoint. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA.)
alaskapublicmedia: Nicholas Petit talking with Aliy Zirkle at the checkpoint in White Mountain as auroras dance overhead. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA.)
alaskapublicmedia: Pete Kaiser mushing into the White Mountain checkpoint. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA.)
alaskapublicmedia: Pete Kaiser mushing into the White Mountain checkpoint and his dogs still raring to go. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA.)
alaskapublicmedia: Wade Marrs hauls water to his dogs from a hole in the ice at the White Mountain checkpoint. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA.)
alaskapublicmedia: Pete Kaiser mushing into the White Mountain checkpoint. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA.)