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Cripple to Ruby
While Jeff is going to have dinner soon, Martin Buser, Aliy Zirkle and Robert Sorlie are on their way over. Upon leaving Cripple it started getting windy. Nothing real bad, but enough to start drifting in the trail. The first team I came upon was Robert Sorlie, who has consistently posted the fastest runtimes. He …
A Look Around the Cripple Checkpoint
The cook shack is a popular place in Cripple. Matter of fact, calling it a shack is not the right word. That place is getting so fancy and decked out thanks to Jim Paulus and his crew who keep on working at this place every year. It’s come a long way from just a bunch …
Jeff King is the first Musher to the Yukon River. Courtesy of the Millennium Hotel, he is going to enjoy a very nice dinner soon. Before the race started he invited Emmitt Peters to join him for this meal. Emmitt is the 1975 Champion and has last run Iditarod in 2000. Jeff clearly had …
Ophir to Cripple
On the way to Cripple. Stopped in at the Carlson Crossing Safety Cabin, that is about 27 miles past Ophir. Got the wood stove roaring and doing a garbage burning session. On musher stopped about 5 miles before here. By the shortness of the straw beds, I assume it was Paul Gebhardt. Another musher camped …
March 5 Cripple 5:32PM King and Lindner in Cripple, but leaving for Ruby This is time for the true race fan to contemplate the great forces at work in the Iditarod. Briefly, here are the players. Buser pushed very hard to Nikolai, but in the grand scheme of things, only about 180 or so miles …
The first musher into McGrath receives the Spirit of Alaska Award presented by PenAir. Wearing bib #70, Sonny Lindner was the first musher to climb off the river and run parallel to the river along the snow-covered road and into the checkpoint. Danny Seybert of Pen Air was in McGrath to present the award to …
The Takotna checkpoint population has exploded over the night and in a headlight sweep behind the community center/checkpoint one can see reflectors…
Robert In and Out of McGrath
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 …
Part of our crew has now moved to Takotna, about 7.5 hours mushing from Nikolai, where we left the pack recovering from a bruising traverse across the Alaska Range. I am personally bummed about injuries—Burmeister hurt his knee, probably ACL, it appears Jake Berkowitz broke a leg, Hans Gatt flipped and had a divot installed …
Aliy Zirkle and Allen Moore were featured at a meet and greet sponsored by Clarion Suites of Anchorage. The first couple of the Yukon Quest shared stories about past race adventures and gave detailed information about their equipment. One thing neither of the SP Kennel owners talked about was their Iditarod strategy. Just a month …
