Checking in with Iditarod mushers Baker and Burmeister

Noah Burmeister in Galena handling his dogs while children watch. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/KSKA)
Mushers and their teams are making their runs down the Yukon River. KNOM’s Emily Schwing caught up with two mushers who have roots in Western Alaska mushers to find out how their races are going.
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Kotzebue musher John Baker pulled a tired team into the Galena checkpoint and declared his eight-hour layover almost immediately.  
The former Iditarod champion says it was c