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Bethel Musher Earns 2021 Iditarod Red Lantern

Bev Hoffman

Two seconds separated Bethel's Victoria Hardwick and the second-to-last-place musher in the 2021 Iditarod, earning her a second Red Lantern Award on March 18. 

Although they were trying to tie for last place, Hardwick’s team crossed the finish line at 12:22:06 a.m., two seconds behind Dakota Schlosser, who arrived at Deshka Landing at 12:22:04 a.m. 

Hardwick earned her first Red Lantern Award in 2019.

Editor's note: The headline on this story has been changed. It previously read, "Bethel Musher Last To Finish 2021 Iditarod."

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Johanna Eurich's vivid broadcast productions have been widely heard on National Public Radio since 1978. She spent her childhood speaking Thai, then learned English as a teenager and was educated at a dance academy, boarding schools and with leading intellectuals at her grandparents' dinner table in Philadelphia.