Anvik - Grayling
Start/Finish
Checkpoint
Dogdrop
This is their first leg on the Yukon and although short, it can be a showstopper. The dogs will get their first taste of the big river, and it may not sit well with them. If the wind is blowing downriver, as it often is, and if the temperature is in the subzero range, as is also often the case, even this relatively brief trip can become interminable.
Figure on one and a half to two and a half hours for this leg. They will run generally up the west side of the river. This is a heavily used village-to-village snowmachine trail and will probably be easy to follow.
