Ryan Redington will be first musher on 2017 Iditarod Trail

(Photo: Matthew Smith, KNOM)Ryan Redington will be the first musher to hit the trail Monday morning in this year’s Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The grandson of Iditarod race founder Joe Redington, Sr., the younger Redington pulled bib #2 from a mukluk at the Iditarod Mushers’ Drawing Banquet Thursday night.
In Saturday’s ceremonial start in Anchorage, Redington will follow the honorary musher, Leo Rasmussen, down Fourth Avenue. Rasmussen has been the checker under the Burled A