*They came IN to White Mountain within ONE minute of each other. This is getting exciting. The difference is because of gassing up.
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(6:35 p.m.) Overheard at HQ - Jana Peterson (of Team 20) is in great shape even after an 18-hour ride, and the local guys in Galena are waiting for Team 30 (Known as "The Girls" around here) to show up.
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(6:33 p.m.) Team 31, 23 and 29 made it to Galena. 23 and 29 went through but 31 is working on a sled.
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(6:21 p.m.) Right now it's a race for $10,000 in gold for the first pro class team to Nome. Looks like 11 and 14 (Palin/Quam and McKenna/Van Meter) are right on top of each other. Looks like they made it across Golovin Lagoon alright. Team Perrins was saying they ran into open water on the Bay. I'm not sure if they were referring to the Bay or the further-in lagoon.
Speaking of, the GPS tracker is back up: http://www.ionearth.com/2011/irondog/web/
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(6:09 p.m.) Team 2 - Zwink/Sottosanti and 40 Marks/Marks are through Koyuk. Looks like Zwink/Sottosanti passed 21 Branholm/Spernak and 3 Dixon/Wold.
Also, Team 25 - Watson/Price have made it to White Mountain for their layover.
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(5:39) Team 5 McAllen/Cherrier came through Shaktoolik at 5:36 p.m.
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(5:35 p.m.) GPS tracker is down. No one here at HQ has racers on their screen. We went from green flags with wrong IDs to trucks with correct IDs and now all we have are checkpoints. They say their IT people are "sweating bullets" working on it.
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(5:29 p.m.) Team 23 Johnson/Green, 31 Potter/Harrison and 29 Muir/Jones have left Ruby.
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(5:19 p.m.) Team 40 Marks/Marks is through Shaktoolik.
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