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Web posted Wednesday, March 9, 2005

News from the trail

Robert Sorlie, the 2003 champion from Hurdal, Norway, was the first musher into Nikolai, an Interior Alaska town of 120 people on the south fork of the Kuskokwim River, on Day 3 of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Sorlie, 47, has been mushing for 35 years and is running his third Iditarod.

Following him into Nikolai — 770 miles from Nome — were veteran mushers Ramy Brooks of Healy and DeeDee Jonrowe of Willow. Aliy Zirkle of Two Rivers and 2004 Iditarod winner Mitch Seavey of Seward had left the Rohn checkpoint and were in the fourth and fifth positions en route to Nikolai.

The route from Nikolai to the McGrath checkpoint is 48 miles.

Three of the 79 mushers who started the race have scratched.

Trail Fact: Rick Swenson, 54, of Two Rivers is the only five-time winner of the Iditarod — in 1977, '79, '81, '82 and '91. He was in 12th position Tuesday.

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