Photos: John Baker’s Championship Finish

March 15, 2011 • KNOM Radio

photos by David Dodman, Linda Maack and Kelly Brabec

John Baker
Kotzebue's John Baker, your 2011 Iditarod champion.
Baker arrives
A large crowd turned out on Nome's Front Street to greet John Baker, the 2011 Iditarod champion.
Bakers dogs swing left
Baker's dogs took a detour on their jog to the finish line, darting briefly to the left on Front Street.
John Baker
John Baker, moments before his historic, championship finish.
From the spotter vehicle
The view from KNOM's spotter vehicle as John Baker pulled into town.
Baker on the sea ice
John Baker on the frozen Bering Sea: the very last segment of the Iditarod Trail before Nome's Front Street and the finish line.
Laureli
Trail reporter Laureli Kinneen reports on John Baker's championship win, live from under the Burled Arch in Nome.
Talking with Laureli
John Baker, sharing a bit of air time with KNOM's Laureli Kinneen.
Talking with Laureli
John Baker and KNOM's Laureli Kinneen.
Baker, Laureli and the media.
John Baker, KNOM's Laureli Kinneen, and other reporters and camera crews at Tuesday's finish.
Leo Rasmussen
Nome resident and Iditarod volunteer Leo Rasmussen holds Baker's sign-in sheet and mail packet.
Sign in sheet
The official sign-in sheet for the Nome checkpoint (the end of the Iditarod race), plus the "mail" carried in John Baker's sled (each musher carries a packet of envelopes on the trail, symbolic of dog mushing's heritage as, among other things, a means of carrying mail).

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