IDITAROD, Alaska (AP) — There’s about to be one lucky musher in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
The Millennium Alaskan Hotel Anchorage is flying its chef 350 miles to serve a seven-course feast to the first musher at the Athabascan village of Anvik. There’s no restaurant in town.
The rib eye steak dinner will be topped off with a bottle of champagne and a $3,500 cash award.
Four-time champion Lance Mackey leads the 1,000-mile race across the Alaska wilderness. The 42-year-old Fairbanks musher was the first to reach the halfway point of the race at the ghost-town checkpoint of Iditarod shortly after 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The winner is expected in the old gold town of Nome, on the state’s western coast, early next week.
The race started in Sunday just north of Anchorage.
