Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race – Monday

One of Silvia Willis's sled dogs takes a nap at a rest stop in the Bering Sea village of Unalakleet, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Monday, March 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)
Norwegian musher Sigrid Ekran drives her dog team into the Bering Sea village of Unalakleet, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Monday, March 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)
Norwegian musher Sigrid Ekran drives her dog team through the snow as she approaches the Bering Sea village of Unalakleet, Alaska during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Monday, March 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)
Dale Myers puts sponsor banners along the finish chute of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race with the burled arch on Front Street in Nome, Alaska Monday, March 10, 2008, to make it ready for the finish of the 1,100 mile sled dog race from Anchorage. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)
The finish chute for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race with the burled arch sits on Front Street in Nome, Alaska Monday, March 10, 2008, ready for the finish of the 1,100 mile sled dog race from Anchorage. Snow will be trucked in and laid down on the street when the musher near the Bering Sea town. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)
Sixty-seven year-old musher Jim Lanier, drives his team up the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race trail between Unalakleet and Shaktoolik, Alaska, Monday, March 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)
Ryan Redington, right, who scratched in Ruby, Alaska because of concern for his dogs, watches his brother Ray Redington Jr. put booties on one of his sled dogs as he gets ready to leave the Unalakleet, Alaska checkpoint on the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Monday, March 10, 2008. Ryan and Ray Jr. are grandsons of the "Father of the Iditarod," Joe Redington, Sr. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)
Four-time Iditarod champion Jeff King puts booties on one of his dogs as he gets ready to leave the Unalakleet, Alaska checkpoint Monday, March 9, 2008, about an hour behind defending champion Lance Mackey. (AP Photo/Al Grillo)