Nom, Alaska – A former reality television star Jessie Holmes on Friday won the Editrode Trail Sled Dog Race.
Holmes was earlier for the Finnish line in Nom’s Gold Rush Town on the Bering C Coast. The race started on March 3 at Fairbanks due to lack of snow in the root and initial point.
It typically raced 1,129 miles (1,817 km) in Alaska forest in the race of 1,000-mile (1,609 km). Holmes ended in 10 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes and 41 seconds.
Holmes competing for the eighth time, the first top 10 finished five times, with third place in the last year and third in 2022. In 2018, in his first Editrode, his seventh -place Finnish received him the Ruki of the Year.
Born in Alabama and grew up, big Holmes left at the age of 18 and served as a carpenter in Montana for three years. He arrived in Alaska in 2004 and found adventure running dogs at a remote place in the Yukon River.
Holmes now lives in Nenana, where he acts as a carpenter and lives a subsistence lifestyle. From 2015 to 2023, he was a cast member of a National Geographic program “Life Down Zero”, a document of Alaskan’s struggles living in remote parts of the state.
In addition to the lack of ice to the north of the Alaska range, which forced the change of the initial point for fairbanks, race organizers had to make a formal onset in the ankreage.
With a snow truck to cover the roads in the state’s largest city, the normal parade route was shortened from 11 miles to 2 miles (about 18 kilometers to 3.2 kilometers), and the number of dogs was reduced.
Only 33 Mush started in Fairbanks, tied to the smallest area with 2023. The decline in participants has expressed concern about the viability of the race, which has faced inflation, climate change and pressure with animal rights groups.
A dog died in this year’s Iditrode: A pregnant woman in Musher Daniel Klein’s team, who scratched the death under the rules of the race.
Nearly one -third of Mush left early, including eight people and two who were withdrawn for not being competitive.
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