This is where the dogs are checked by a veterinarian and more supplies are picked up. Each musher has to have 8 booties for each dog, a cold weather sleeping bag, a hand axe, snowshoes, a packet of Yukon Quest material and enough food for the dogs and the musher when they leave a checkpoint . The checkpoints this year are at Angel Creek, Central, Circle City, Eagle, Dawson City, Pelly Crossing and Carmacks. At Dawson there is a mandatory stay of 36 hours. This is about halfway into the race.
Mushers get a chance to catch up on sleep.
The race usually takes from 10 to 14 days. The weather has a lot to do with how fast or slow the teams go. There isn't much snow around this year. It starts in Fairbanks on Saturday, February 10 this year.