Fans show support as Zirkle moves through Kaltag

A small crowd of fans cheered as Aliy Zirkle drove her dog team up over the bank of the Yukon River and into Kaltag late Saturday morning.
Zirkle spent nine minutes in the checkpoint, sifting through drop bags. She grabbed beef snacks and salmon snacks for her dogs, switched out a led dog named Scout for another named Dutch and sped off.
“I’m not answering any questions,” she told a cameraman who works with the Iditarod Insider.
A local Kaltag resident handed Zirkle a homemade