I follow Alaska Life for everything AK.
They are great with the Iron Dog updates. :)
Here’s one AK Life hasn’t posted yet:
Team 39 Schachle/Barber, 2nd into Kotz yesterday, scratched this morning. Here’s the reason per Cody Barber:
“Well guys, we gave it an honest effort, but unfortunately we’re being forced to call it quits here in kotz, had a great run, sleds are clean and did their job. We just took a very unfortunate hit causing robbbies collar bone to break in a few places. We rode 200 miles after that happened, but after x Rays, it’ll be in our best interest to not race on due to sharp bone pointing towards lungs and artery.
Thanks again to all of our support, it just wasn’t our year, we’ll get them next time.”
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Can you even imagine riding 200 miles [on rough terrain & in near blizzard conditions no less] on a snow machine with your collarbone in a couple of pieces? Tough, tough guys.
2020 Iron Dog – Day 3 Coverage
https://www.thealaskalife.com/blog/2020-iron-dog-day-3-coverage/
Updates since the article:
Team 7 - first in Nome!
Team 7 plane did go down, pilot/co-pilot are ok, but reported the plane is “bent”.
Team 6 - not out with the plane, the problem was their GPS wasn’t pinging. After 3 hours, the GPS started pinging & they were showing well down the trail towards White Mountain, to everyone’s relief.
Some fantastic video today from locals at checkpoints ... Koyuk was particularly good - got to see some wrenching, hear some stories as the racers came through.