The Iditarod has a new champion: Brent Sass and his dog team raced into Nome in first this morning to a cheering crowd. 'It's a dream come true,' he said.
and saw 42-year-old Sass stopped twice between White Mountain and Nome, hit by a huge windstorm around the infamous Topkok Blowhole.
“It was very, very windy out there,” said Sass. “We took a tumble and went off the trail and thought I was just gonna have to bunker down and, you know, see what the how the cards fell. But persevered, got up and found the trail again. And I don’t even know what the wind was blowing out there. I couldn’t see anything. The dogs, the only reason we got out of there is because they trusted me.”
“I think living where I live and making it an all-inclusive lifestyle. I think that’s, you know, the way it used to be, it’s kind of the way it is for me,” Sass said at White Mountain on Monday. “So maybe that’s what I represent sort of the old school, because I’m still living like Susan and Rick did back in the day.”
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