Wasilla - Knik
Start/Finish
Checkpoint
Dogdrop
The mushser must consider the first three legs as a unit for their first day on the trail. They have to plan on an hour and a half to get to Knik, another five to seven hours on the trail to Yentna Station, and three to five hours from Yentna Station to Skwentna. Somewhere along the way they maybe want to rest their dogs for two or three hours, preferably during the heat of the day between the Little Susitna River and the Big Susitna River. The "fast movers" will reach Skwentna about mid-evening. Tail-enders will pull in as late as five or six in the morning.
The initial segment from Wasilla to Knik runs from the restart at the Old Wasilla Airport across the Parks Highway, over Lake Lucille, down a series of power lines to Knik-Goose Bay Road (passing Iditarod Headquarters on the way), and then along the side of the road for the last 11 miles to Knik Bar.
