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William Pinkham

Bib Number: 65
Hometown: Glenwood Springs, CO


Biography

William Pinkham, 53, was born in the District of Columbia and grew up in New Jersey. He went to college and got his degree in geology/polyscience. He went to Colorado in 1980 and fell in love with the Rockies, skiing, hiking, and biking. He began mushing in 1994 after the “seed had been planted when he was a child.” William said he played rugby for 23 years and filled the void left from that when he moved to Colorado, where he moved to get “mountains and space,” with distance mushing. He started racing in 1994 when he started thinking about being out “in the white silence.” William married Jody in 2008 and says, “Jody and I work together with the dogs and other parts or our relationship. They are the parents of Grace Ruby Pinkham, born in January 2011. He lists his occupation as “builder and baby sitter” and his hobbies as biking, reading, climbing, Soo Bahk Do, (Korean martial art) and surfing.


2004 Standings

Checkpoint Time In Dogs In Time Out Dogs Out Rest Time Previous Layover Status Distance
Enroute Time Speed (mph) 8hr 24hr
Anchorage 3/06 12:20:00 12
BLM 3/13 04:12:00 10 3/13 12:12:00 10 8h 0m 159h 52m ✔ ✔
Willow 3/13 19:55:00 10 3/14 04:04:00 10 8h 9m 7h 43m 4.02 ✔ ✔ 31
Yentna 3/14 10:16:00 10 3/14 10:30:00 10 0h 14m 6h 12m 2.74 ✔ ✔ 17
Skwentna 3/14 20:44:00 10 3/14 21:35:00 10 0h 51m 10h 14m 3.32 ✔ ✔ 34
Finger Lake 3/15 15:34:00 10 3/15 22:54:00 10 7h 20m 17h 59m 2.50 ✔ ✔ 45
Rainy Pass 3/16 04:39:00 10 3/16 05:00:00 10 0h 21m 5h 45m 5.22 ✔ ✔ 30
Rohn 3/16 13:14:00 10 3/16 20:57:00 9 7h 43m 8h 14m 5.83 ✔ ✔ 48
Nikolai 3/17 04:15:00 9 3/17 09:45:00 8 5h 30m 7h 18m 12.74 ✔ ✔ 93
McGrath 3/17 16:38:00 8 3/18 00:39:00 8 8h 1m 6h 53m 6.97 ✔ ✔ 48
Takotna 3/18 06:28:00 8 3/18 08:31:00 8 2h 3m 5h 49m 3.95 ✔ ✔ 23
Ophir 3/12 12:00:00 3/12 17:51:00 10 5h 51m -141h -31m -0.27 ✔ 38
Cripple 3/11 17:49:00 3/11 18:52:00 11 1h 3m -25h -2m -2.40 ✔ 60
Ruby 3/06 13:23:00 -126h -29m -0.89 112
Galena 3/07 12:06:00 16 52
Nulato 3/07 15:25:00 16 3/07 18:47:00 16 3h 22m 3h 19m 15.68 52
Kaltag 3/07 21:39:00 16 16 2h 52m 14.65 42
Unalakleet 3/08 08:36:00 16 90
Shaktoolik 3/08 12:32:00 15 3/08 18:50:00 15 6h 18m 40
Koyuk 3/08 23:15:00 15 3/09 08:38:00 15 9h 23m 4h 25m 13.13 58
Elim 3/09 19:04:00 15 3/10 04:43:00 12 9h 39m 10h 26m 4.60 48
White Mountain 3/10 10:41:00 12 3/10 11:14:00 12 0h 33m 5h 58m 7.71 46
Safety 3/10 14:06:00 12 3/11 14:52:00 11 24h 46m 2h 52m 19.19 ✔ 55
Nome 3/18 11:40:47 164h 48m 0.13 ✔ ✔ 22