DeNure scratches in Rainy Pass

Zoya DeNure prepared to start the 2016 Iditarod. (Photo by Patrick Yack/Alaska Public Media)
Willow musher Nicolas Petit was the first musher in to the Nikolai –checking in at 8:41 Tuesday morning.
Reigning Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey trailed Petit into the checkpoint less than 25 minutes later.
Dallas’s father – and 2-time Iditarod winner – Mitch Seavey is in third place, checking into Nikolai at 9:23 a.m.
Three musher have scratched, so far.
Delta Junction’s Z