Nic only stopped in at Grayling for a little over a half hour, but then just went up the river a ways and rested for 5 hours, essentially giving back the 5 hour lead he had over both Joar and Mitch. Not sure why he did this...according to the GPS Tracker, Mitch actually passed by the resting Nic Team. Joar came up and then both Nic and Joar started moving and caught back up to Mitch....they are all traveling within a mile of each other now. Not sure if it is the wind that caught Nic, or a blown in trail, or maybe he just overslept....but whatever it is, the 3 front runners are now all together and by the looks of the tracker, Mitch is breaking the trail, which I find odd because I thought he would NOT want to be in front breaking trail with just 12 dogs. Joar dropped 2 dogs in Grayling and Nic is still 14 dogs strong.
The GPS has:
Mitch and Nic are at mile 562, with Nics speed around 9 and Mitch's speed around 8 (that is just a "ping" in time for speed, but Nic is pinging consistently faster than Mitch)
Joar is right behind them at mile 561, pinging at a speed of 7.5 mph
The rest of the pack is resting in Grayling (mile 530) with everyone already serving out their 8 hour rest back in Shageluk. These Teams are repacking their sled for the unexpected 122 mile haul up to Kaltag without a checkpoint.
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