[Qiviut]

There's an interesting story going on with Trail Class which is not a race, but 'recreational' (and definitely an adventure!) as reported on Iron Dog FB yesterday:

Check out Father/Son Team #54. After crashing outside of Big Lake, they loaded up in Deshka Landing, drove to Anchorage Yamaha / Suzuki Marine for repairs...and are now headed back to the trail. (Just saw them on the GPS Tracker heading out on 5th Ave. out of Anchorage. #nevergiveup

They made it to Puntilla on the 2nd day (15th). With Trail Class, there are no specified layover times, although there is a plan in the rules that they get from the start at Big Lake to Puntilla the first day & the 2nd day they go from Puntilla to McGrath (today they go from McGrath to Ruby). Team 54 really did some driving yesterday and made it to Nikolai so they are now approximately 52 miles behind the field, who did make it to McGrath (some in the wee hours of the morning). Hopefully team 54 can catch up with the rest of the field today! To add to the 'drama', 54a's GPS wasn't pinging yesterday so it looked like 54b was out there all by himself - good to see 54a pinging in Nikolai this morning.

[Qiviut]

Weather (from Iron Dog):

2-16; Skwentna, snow -2 feels like -2, 2 MPH winds, forecast today is light snow 20-50 Chance of snow showers
2-16, Nikolai, haze, -19 feels like -19, 0 winds, forecast high of 3 partly cloudy, low tonight -10
2-16, McGrath, scattered clouds, -8 feels like -8, 1 mph wind, high today 0, low tonight -11

[onyx]

Thank you so much.

[KC_Lion]

WOOT!

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