The Iditarod has punished three mushers for taking their dogs inside shelter cabins during fierce storms at the tail end of this year’s race
Highlights
- Three mushers were penalized for leaving their dogs in a shelter during a winter storm.
- Porsild and Phillips were fined $1,000 each for doing so.
- The dogs were huddled inside a shelter at the end of the race in Nome, Alaska.
- The decision was made by race officials, but no charges were filed against the mushers.
- The move was not widely publicized by the race, which is now in the final stages of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race in Alaska.
- It is the first time the three mushers have been penalized in the past two years for not taking shelter in the snow.