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FROSTY IS A BEAR
| 1 year 4 months # | Iditarod 2025 - and Paige is running after all

Bruce just came over after speaking with Paige and Ryan.

Paige said she was thinking about doing her 8 hour but feels it would be better to go further down the trail and hopefully find better conditions for camping. The team will probably have ~5.5 hours of rest by the time they pull out. It is ~55 miles to Greyling. She could try and go the whole way or try and camp on the way.

Ryan will be staying for a rest as well. Said he was frustrated with how rough the trail was and that he was tired out. Will give the team and himself a rest for at least a few hours.

There was rain in the area, so you also get spots where the to of the snow gets a crust you can break through and then sink down into. Then that also fills up with water. Not a fun section of trail.

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FROSTY IS A BEAR
| 1 year 4 months # | Iditarod 2025 - and Paige is running after all

Saturday evening, March 8.

As the analysts predicted, Paige was first to Eagle Island. She has been resting there for over 4 hours. If she is not taking her 8 hour layover, then she will probably be leaving in less than an hour. If she is taking it, she'll be eligible to leave around 6:30 Alaska time/10:30 east coast.

Reports on the trail are that the trail was horrible. Paige called it one of the 10 worst trails she has ever been on. Lots of river overflow that has then frozen causing a lot of bumps. The announcer doing the coverage at Eagle Island noted that when you are walking around some of the snow and ice feels like cement. But when you get into soft snow, your boot sinks way down. When you pull it out, the hole starts filling with water that then turns to slush that then freezes into ice bumps. On the way down from Kaltag, Matt Hall was thrown from his sled he ended up underneath the sled while a dog that was being carried flew out and landed on him. Very rough terrain. They also showed Ryan Redington coming into the checkpoint and his team was really struggling through the last stretch.

And they just panned the camera over to Paige with Bruce talking to her.

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