Nic Petit’s 2019 Iditarod Start and Restart

Nic Petit’s 2019 Iditarod Start and Restart

Nic Petit’s 2019 Iditarod Start and Restart

Photos by Marc Donadieu / Glacier City Gazette

Starting from top center clockwise:

1. Petit was interviewed by varied media during ceremonial start preparations.
2. Catching some rest before the ceremonial start
3. Lead Handler Tyler Schmitt places a dog on a colorful blanket
4. Nic Petit glides down 4th Ave. on his way to the ceremonial start through Anchorage
5. Lead Handler Tyler Schmitt is pulled along the ceremonial trail on a tag sled.
6. Petit poses with a dog
7. Anxious to take off
8. Petit demonstrates to Iditarod volunteers how to hold his dogs on the way to the starting chute
9. Four-time Iditarod Champion Lance Mackey shakes Petit’s hand before the restart.
10. Petit waiting his turn to sprint down 4th Ave.
11. Blanket, booties and water; what more could am Iditarod sled dog want?