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Squid Acres is home to Cody Strathe, Paige Drobny and sixty Alaskan Huskies. The couple has been building their kennel and developing their line of dogs for roughly eight years. Squid Acres Kennel wasn’t originally founded with the idea of racing, but instead to explore the wilderness and beautiful places of Alaska by dog team. …
No, you’re not seeing double. There are TWO Beringtons, Kristy and Anna. They are Identical twins. So Identical that even in utero, their heartbeats were synchronized. Kristy arrived first. Mom, Dad and the attending physician were completely surprised when Anna arrived five minutes later. Now, thirty-two years later, living in Knik, Alaska Kristy and Anna …
In case you’ve missed Sebastian’s statistics on the top three – Dallas, Brent & Mitch, this is the deal, “There is a 3.5 mile difference and only 30 minutes between 1st and 3rd place after 845 miles of racing.” Honestly, I think back to the stories I’ve heard about the one second race between Dick …
It’s a bit of a walk but well worth the view. There’s a bridge about a mile and a half from town that the mushers pass under as they head to Shaktoolik. It makes for a great shot and it’s best to make the hike when more that one musher is headed out of town. …
Eight teams have departed Unalakleet since Brent Sass arrived just before mid-night last night. Sass was greeted by many villagers and the Wells Fargo people who presented the Gold Coast Award to Brent. The award includes $3,500 in gold Nuggets. Sass stayed nearly five hours then headed up the trail to Shaktoolik. Many folks commented …
Ellen Halverson arrived in McGrath checkpoint this morning at a few minutes after 0900. She bedded her dogs down then went down the line giving something I recognized as vitamin E, pretty similar to a supplement I take. Ellen says she’s very diligent about using natural supplements not only for herself but also for her …
Mary Helwig is on her way to Takotna after taking her long rest in McGrath. Earlier this morning Mary was snacking her dogs with frozen chunks of beef, liver and tripe. Tripe is a rather interesting substance. Tripe is the stomach of a grazing animal – cows, buffalo and sheep. The stomachs of these animals …
Made it to the checkpoint for the specific purpose of seeing Larry Daugherty depart. Specifically, I wanted to see the new style Seavey spreader harness that he was using and I wanted to ask him what he watches and thinks about on the trail mile after mile after mile. For the harness, the first rendition …
While I’m still in McGrath, and will be until all the mushers are through, that doesn’t keep me from thinking, speculating and looking further down the trail. Of course I’ve picked my top ten finishers before the race began. Today though, I’m not thinking about the champion, well maybe I am, but I’m thinking about …
A few teams depart and a few teams arrive but compared to Wednesday at this time, the population of McGrath Checkpoint had diminished greatly. Basically, the race is moving on up the trail. McGrath awaits the arrival of Billy Snodgrass and Ellen Halverson who haven’t departed Nikolai yet. Cindy Gallea came into McGrath. When asked …
