INTERVIEW: Brent Sass leads Iditarod to the Bering Sea coast

Brent Sass is racing at the front of the 2016 Iditarod. (Photo by Emily Schwing/KNOM.)Brent Sass has been hard to catch in this year’s Iditarod. He has camped outside of checkpoints for the majority of the race, stopping only long enough to grab food and supplies, running his team much like he would in Alaska’s other 1,000 mile sled dog race, the Yukon Quest.
The Eureka-based musher has consistently driven his team between eight and nine miles per hour in this Iditarod, and he is dri