It’s 4pm Monday afternoon Goodness, it looks like it was pretty brutal out there. A ground storm hit the leading pack on their way from Shaktoolik and Koyuk which slowed the teams down, made the trail difficult to find and seemingly made for challenging mushing. Once teams hit the coast … Read More
It’s 8am Monday morning RED TEAM UPDATE Insiders will have seen a video where Aliy talks about having to “bench” three dogs in Unalakleet “due to circumstances out of our control”. Two of them, Junior and Scooby, stepped into deep snow and hurt their wrists. This trail has been hard … Read More
It’s 11.30pm Sunday night. The handler crew has arrived into Nome after a day of travelling. Front Street is all lit up and ready for the mushers to arrive! RED TEAM UPDATE Aliy and team are on their way to Unalakleet (Unk). After spending 5 hours 20 in Kaltag they … Read More
We have just had word from Allen in Grayling. Firstly, the dogs are great. It is Allen himself that is not well. Allen woke up from his nap with a high fever and turns out he has picked up an infection. He has been in contact with his daughters Bridgett … Read More
Its 8.30am Sunday morning RED TEAM UPDATE Aliy and the Red Team pulled into Kaltag just after 5am this morning. They split the run from Grayling into three, camping twice for three hours each and covered the 120 miles in 22 hours, 33 minutes (including rest time). Their second camp … Read More
It’s 7pm Saturday night Susan A Smith, a teacher at Takotna, got some great pics of our teams (and others) at the checkpoint a few days ago. She has generously agreed to let me use some to share with you below – thanks Susan. RED TEAM UPDATE After resting six … Read More
Its 8:30am Saturday. RED TEAM UPDATE Since my previous post, Aliy and her team passed through Anvik and moved on to the checkpoint of Grayling right around midnight.The team stayed almost six hours in Grayling and are now moving nicely along the Yukon River. We are aware she has left … Read More
Its 9pm Friday evening. Well, I guess a lot happened while I was driving home! I love to immerse myself in the tracker while the race is going on but sometimes it is good to step away – but what a day to step away! For those that haven’t heard: … Read More
It’s 7am Friday RED TEAM UPDATE Aliy and her team mates are about 10 miles before Shageluk and going by current speeds, we expect them to arrive roughly around 9am after 55 miles of lonely, hilly trail. The trail notes mention that this trail is not often travelled and normally … Read More
This evening we were able to pick up Felix, Barista and Sanka. They are with us here at Barbara’s house, have had a good meal and are bedded down in their home away from home in the back yard. We will be driving back to the kennel tomorrow and they … Read More
