Starting Positions Set for 2018 Iditarod; 67 Mushers to Depart from Willow on Sunday
![Miss Alaska 2017, Angelina Klapperich, poses next to the trophy (bearing a likeness of the late Joe Redington, Sr.) that will be given to the 2018 Iditarod champion.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/03012018-MusherBanquet-Miss-Alaska-1002x1200.jpg)
After bib #1 was dedicated to this year’s honorary musher, the late Joe Redington, Jr., Cody Strathe and all the other 66 registered mushers drew numbers from a traditional mukluk boot during Thursday night’s mushers banquet in Anchorage. Strathe will be the first musher to leave Willow Sunday afternoon.