As of 4 pm Friday afternoon, 36-year-old Brent Sass of Minnesota remains in the lead and the only musher who has left the Galena checkpoint.
Aliy Zirkle was the second musher into Galena and Seward’s two-time Iditarod champion Mitch Seavey got into that checkpoint third.
Galena is approximately 430 miles from the finish line in Nome where the winner of the 1,000 mile race is expected early next week.
All top three mushers have taken their mandatory 24-hour break but none have rested for the other mandatory 8-hour layover.
Five of the original 85 mushers have scratched since the race began last Sunday.
As for the other Kenai Peninsula musher standings:
Paul Gebhart of Kasilof was in 14th.
Travis Beals of Seward was in 26th.
Monica Zappa of Kasilof was in 53rd.
Sarah Stokey of Seward, a rookie, was in 54th.