2016 Iron Dog snowmachine racers start to arrive in Nome

Competitive Iron Dog teams started to arrive in Nome Tuesday.  Team Number #8, Tyler Ecklestad of Palmer and Tyson Johnson of Eagle River, arrived at the 1000 mile halfway point along the Iron Dog trail just after 3:30 Tuesday afternoon. They won $10,000 for their effort, but they weren’t the first team to arrive in Nome.
The very first team driving this year’s IronDog trail arrived more than two hours earlier, though with little fanfare.
The crowd was tiny b