Robert In and Out of McGrath

Posted by Sebastian Schnuelle
Date: March 4, 2014 7:31 pm

Robert Sorlie did not spend much time in McGrath. He has teamed up with Thomas Waerner from Team Elekenor for this year’s race. Thomas who is also traveling by snowmachine (we helped each other yesterday in the burn) was very pleased to see his own dogs as leaders coming into the checkpoint. Once again Robert had a hard time keeping the dogs stopped. They want to go. And considering that very soon these dogs will have a 24 hr layover, to rest up even better, this team is just starting to come together. He is a few hours off pace, as Aliy Zirkle has arrived in Takotna, pretty much when he left McGrath. Then again, all of these guys are a bit off pace. When Martin Buser can leave Nikolai in the middle of the night, he will be quite a few hours ahead of everybody. And on this hard fast trail, that unconventional strategy of his might work very well.

Here some Robert shots.Hhe is tough to take a picture of, as he hides behind that fur ruff.