Iditarod’s mid-pack mushers prepare final pushes to Nome

Iditarod mushers face a grueling next few days.
Not just those fighting tooth-and-nail at the top of the pack but, also, everyone else with competitive ambitions jockeying for spots in the top 10, 20 and 30.
At this point in the race, the leader board is hardly set in stone. At the Kaltag checkpoint, a lot of mid-pack mushers are getting ready to make moves.
This is the fourth Iditarod for Katherine Keith of Kotzebue, but she’s not where she wants to be.
“I had hoped for a top 15 or