March 8, 2025
This may be the shortest time I’ve seen the Galena checkpoint open for Iditarod. Teams started arriving on Thursday and by Saturday afternoon the last few teams were heading out. It was in the teens today with a bit of wind but nice and sunny.
I was lucky enough to be at the checkpoint as one of the teams was leaving. It wasn’t long before all of them were out. I went out for my Saturday run after this and saw two of them heading out of town.
Galena is about a third of the way down the trail and they have a long trail ahead to the finish. I’ll get to work on the still images tomorrow and get them posted as soon as I can.