Buser with a 7 Mile Lead

It's a long way from Eagle Island to Kaltag along the Mighty Yukon.....62 miles usually is a hop skip and a jump for a sled dog Team. Add in horrible conditions, slush and frozen nastiness plus having no where to stop and rest is simply a recipe for slow going at best! Buser is now only 7 miles from the chase pack.....his 5 hour lead last night dwindled down to 3 hours this am, and now is merely a little more than an hour. The next checkpoint is Kaltag, just 7 hours in front of Buser. Here everyone will rest.....but who will venture out first? It won't necessarily be Buser....he won't have that much rest on the chase pack...it would be "easy" or rather bold for one of the front ruuners to step up to the plate. Trail conditions from Kaltag will play a big factor. This is the place the Mushers will leave the Yukon River and follow an old portage route that connects the Yukon River Villages of the interior to the Bering Sea Coast of Eskimo Villages. This is a 90 mile stretch...is the trail blown in....is it broken....is it frozen slush? This long haul is typically broken up into 3 legs. That is typical, but who will break away from the typical....do something different like Mackey in 2007 who did this in one giant long haul? That is what this race needs.....it started with Buser making a long run in the beginning of the race....now that strategy is hanging by a thread. Time for a new break away....but who will be the Team? We shall find that out in the next 24 hours!