Settling In

Teams are now for the most part through the first checkpoint of Yentna Station.  The GPS is showing the regular suspects out in front....Nic Petit, who had to borrow a dog trailer in Anchorage just to get to the starting line in Willow is presently out in front at mile 106 and appears to be resting.  Pete Kaiser and Lindwood Fiedler are running 4 miles from him, Aliy is running smoothly at mile 91with a string of Teams right behind her.  We are only in the first 100 miles thus far, this is just a snap shot in time.

Weather....the snow was falling in big flakes on Willow Lake during the re-start....this part of Alaska has been getting lots of snow, and everyone is talking about how this will definitely slow the race down.  The other thing is ice on lakes and rivers.....it is thinner than in the past, in fact the moved the re-start off of Willow Lake because the earth quake had damaged some of the early ice and is not safe for 50+ dog trucks to park on. Reports from the Bering Sea area along the coast is the ice is acting more like May instead of March....Yikes!  Climate Change is definitely being felt up there in the 49th state! 

More to come.....Mush On!