Musher Dallas Seavey was assessed a two-hour penalty for failing to properly gut a moose he shot earlier in the race after it attacked his team.
Musher Dallas Seavey talks to Iditarod Insider reporter Bruce Lee at the Cripple checkpoint during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Thursday, March 7, 2024.
Early Monday, Seavey’s team had come around a blind corner while going down a hill between the Skwentna and Finger Lake checkpoints when they started to pass by a moose on the trail. Then the moose attacked the dogs closest to Seavey’s sled, he said. Seavey from Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race officials, Seavey spent about 10 minutes at the site of the moose encounter before traveling about 11 miles down the trail and camping.
An aerial view of the remote Cripple checkpoint in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Thursday, March 7, 2024. “I don’t want to have to go through this every single checkpoint along the way, right?” Seavey said. “We are going to focus on our dog team and run the race.” that he had tunnel vision after shooting the moose and “just made terrible, shocked decisions, I guess, one after the next.” He said he became focused on getting Faloo to Finger Lake as quickly as possible, and it didn’t occur to him that the prior checkpoint, Skwentna, was closer — a move PETA is criticizing.
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