We made it to the Bear Creek Cabin, which is about 32 miles short of Nikolai. Its been a wild ride as usual. Rainy Pass was windy, but not too bad. Visibility was a real challenge as the light was more than flat. I managed to flip my machine on its side twice. Good thing we were 2 people 2 bring it back upright. And also a good thing we went ahead on the dogteams, so we were not in anybody’s way.
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Short report from 10.30 to 2 p.m.
It is 10.30 and by now there are 5 teams into Rainy Pass. Jim Lanier 71 years young was the last team in. Melissa: “he got a black dog in there?”. My comment: “he needs to drop that”. Hugh and Lance both had some breedings happening, Iditarpuppies! Some good genetics there, talk about born and raised on the trail!!!!
Ray Redington pulled into the Rainy Pass checkpoint first. His dogs looked very energetic. Barking to go. He quickly loaded his food drop bags and headed to his parking spots. The vet crew eagerly waiting. Almost within sight came Hugh Neff onto Puntilla Lake. His team also looked nice and strong.
First Team in. Ray Redington Jr. Started first, came in first. Also came in with a bit of a gap to the second team, being Jody Baily. We passed her coming in alongside a big bonfire. Come to think of it, she had a bale of Straw strapped to the sled, so she might have been close to Ray but will choose to camp. Right behind her was Aliy Zircle and Jeff King behind that. Read the whole post »
First off, I have to admit I overslept this morning. I guess that is how it goes, if you are not a musher pumped full of adrenaline. Got to 4th Avenue late, was kicked out I do not how many times from the dog staging area, that I lost count. And that was even with wearing a damn handlers-mushers badge.
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Sebastian just passed under the arch in Nome and finished his Iditarod 2010 with 13 dogs. Unfortunately he didn’t win but he placed on a very good 7th place.
While Sebastian is heading for the last 77 miles to Nome, Lance Mackey makes history is now the first musher winning the Iditarod 4 times in a row.
GRATULATION LANCE – GOOD JOB !!!
Mar 11 – 3.00 AK (13.00 MEZ) In the official standing Sebastian is “only” in 12th position, but when we take into count that he already spend his mandatory 24h layover (together with Jeff King, Hugh Neff and Mitch Seavey) then we see him in the Top-4.
Mar 9 – 4:30 AK (14:30 MEZ) Sebastian leads the pack with about 9 miles before Mitch Seavey, Hugh Neff and John Baker – hoping that’s not a disadvantage as it snowed some feets last week and so he has to break trail.
Sebastian and Mark are running the Percy de Wolfe today at 10:00 h (19:00 MEZ) at Dawson City. The race goes over 210 miles (336 km) to Eagle and back to Dawson City.
Website Percy de Wolfe with live GPS-enabled map of the race.
