As of 8:45 PM, Anchorage Time, on Monday March 9, the leader of the pack is a familiar face: Rick Swenson. He currently leads a pack of mushers that includes Paul Gebhardt (who stopped drinking 19 months ago - see previous post), Sebastian Schnuelle, a Canadian, Aaron Burmeister, and Hugh Neff. The mushers are expected to arrive on the other side of the Alaska Range in the village of Nikola sometime between 11:00 AM and 12:00 PM Alaska Time tomorrow.