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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:19 pm
Dee Dee. The race will not be the same without her cheery presence. Sad to see the favorites retire. 
Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 11:35 amPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 12:12 pmPosted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 1:20 pm hate scratchers. I always dream one day we will get a race with no scratchesPosted: Sat Mar 10, 2018 2:43 pm That's too bad. I hope he and his dogs are okay.Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2018 10:16 pm )Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:29 amPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 6:19 amRyan-Erin Redington
6 hrs ·
I found some internet in Kaltag and give a quick update. It was very difficult to scratch as I know it was letting my support and fans down. It was the right thing to do for my dogs. One of the toughest bugs that I seen. They were given two different antibiotics and probiotics and things never improved. On my 24 hour rest someone accidentally put diesel fuel in the dog pot that all the mushers got their water to feed. There was two mushers who fed that contaminated water to their teams and I was one of them. You could smell the diesel in my teams dog bowls. It was gut wrenching and I was so very mad. It was quickly discovered and they quickly fixed the situation for all the mushers. They started to feel better and eating ok again before we left on the 24 hour rest.
Right now my team is feeling better. Thanks again and we will be back to race again.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 6:20 amMoose wrote:Sad to have two Redingtons sitting out the rest of the race.
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:08 pmRookie Iditarod musher Tom Schonberger (bib #25) of Chugiak, Alaska, scratched at 1:33 p.m. between the Grayling and Eagle Island checkpoints.
Schonberger made the decision to scratch in the best interest of his race team.
Schonberger and his team will be traveling back to Grayling with support from the Iditarod trail sweeps.
Schonberger had 11 dogs in harness at the time he made the decision to scratch.