Bag of Gold

By making it to the Cripple Checkpoint first, she received a bag of gold known as the Dorothy Page Halfway Award. Dorothy was the founder of the race in the early 70s. The gold is said to be worth $3000. So that was a pleasant surprise for DeeDee!
She'd have been in 2nd if Paul Gebhardt had been able to find the checkpoint. There's an interesting article on the Anchorage Daily News site which explains how someone could leave 6 hours ahead of the next musher but not arrive at the next checkpoint until 8 minutes after them...
http://www.adn.com/2694/story/336959.html

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