Author: Sebastian Schnuelle (88 posts)
More Teams coming in, and back over the trail in 1 hr 45 minutes
Here a few more shots of yesterday afternoons finishes. More tight races with Travis Beals edging out Justin Savidis. Matt Giblin brought a nice puppy team to the finish line for the Kennel of Mitch Seavey. Today I flew back to Anchorage, nice weather almost all along. Not much sea ice between NOme and Shak. …
Windy Nome for the middle of the pack
The wind has picked up again in Nome, I woke up to the house rattling. It had been unusually calm and quite here. And that never lasts too long in these neck of the woods. But luckily for the mushers the wind is from a quarter in their back. Still it makes running these last …
Finish Line Duels
Duels to the Finish Line. MItch Seavey did not only edge out Aliy Zirkle last night. It has been a tight race for the finish line for many teams. 7th place Finisher and Rookie of the year Joar Leifseth Ulsom managed to stay ahead of Jake Berkowitz by a whole 16 seconds. Apparently at some …
In Nome, the waiting begins
I was tempted to stop on top of Cape Nome again, as it was a beautiful sunset. But I am sure Mitch and Aliy prefer some peace and quite on the trail and have had enough of my camera beside the trail. What a race this has been!!!! Exiting from day 1 one. I still …
A few more of Aliy Zirkle going through Safety
And we are headed to NOME!!!!! Here Aliy in and out of Safety, off into the sunset….
8.01 p.m. Aliy through second!!!
She is 24 minutes behind. Mitch about doubled his lead from White Mountain
Mitch 1st though Safety Aliy about here!
Mitch has left quite a while ago. Its quite here in Safety, much less people than expected. I heard snowmachiners here saying, that they rather want to go to NOme and not ride in the dark. Ha! They are going to miss a beautiful sunset riding on the Coast, and of course the beautiful sight …
Mitch through SAFETY
He wasted not time. I never knew MItch could run like that. He arrived much earlier than I though! Mitch in and out in 2 minutes
Mitch leading the way towards Safety
The blow hole is as calm as calm can be. Do not let these pictures fool you. Earlier I saw Mitch pedaling, later on he got the skipoles out and was poling away. Here he just poses for pictures…. They can not quite see each other, but am sure are well aware of each others …
Topkok Shelter Cabin, Mitch 1st, Aliy 2nd
I missed Mitch with sitting too far off the trail. Just saw the tail end of Aliy wizz by and caught up with her on the beach near the shelter cabin. Snow flying while she ran the team down the mountain, and as soon as she reached the flats, out came two Ski Poles and …
