15-03-2016 12:45 via alaskapublic.org

Photos: Brent Sass in White Mountain

Brent Sass is still in the White Mountain checkpoint at 3:50 Tuesday morning. He was eligible to leave at 7:40 p.m. Monday, but he returned to the checkpoint after his dogs did not want to run to Nome. The Eureka musher told APRN’s Zachariah Hughes that his team is tired and while he was ready to go, he said had pushed them too hard.
Sass told Hughes that long runs earlier on the trail put the team in the situation and called it tremendously disappointing. Hughes says Sass was verbally apo
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