The Iditarod leader has skipped his gourmet meal prize in the Alaska wilderness. “I guess you’ll have to give it to someone else. I’d love to stay longer, but my schedule doesn’t allow it,” Brent Sass said.
The Iditarod, a nearly thousand-mile race across untamed Alaska, began for 49 mushers Sunday north of Anchorage. Since then four mushers have scratched, including the latest, Hugh Neff, who had been in third place. He left the race at the Ruby checkpoint, saying he and Iditarod Race Marshal Mark Nordman were concerned for his team. Olson had 11 dogs in harness when he decided to scratch.
The fine meal did not go to waste. It was given to Billy Honea, a checkpoint volunteer who has been involved with the Iditarod for decades. He shared it with other volunteers in Ruby, photos of which were shared on theThe first Iditarod was run in 1973, and Billy’s father, Don Honea, first competed three years later. He would go on to race in six other Iditarods, which the last in 1986.
The Lakefront Anchorage Hotel flew its chef 300 miles from the state’s largest city to prepare the gourmet dinner.The hotel has been race headquarters in Anchorage for three decades, but earlier announced it would drop its affiliation with the Iditarod next year. Officials with the Lakefront Anchorage Hotel blamed the change on the pandemic’s effect on business, but the move was announced by its owners, Millennium Hotels and Resorts, a day before the race’s biggest critic, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, planned to protest outside the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago.Iditarod officials referred questions to hotel manager John Bruce, who did not immediately return messages Friday from The Associated Press.
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