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Our Natural Extremes Mushing Adventure Trips will head back to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this coming season. In March and April 2012, after Aliy completes her 12th Iditarod, the dogs and mushers will begin their adventure trips North. Aliy and Allen will continue to share their knowledge and love of the Arctic on these unique adventures. Whether you are interested in a workshop on dog mushing or a trip to the finish line of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog and scenic lands beyond, contact us! You will be challenged to see the world in a different way.
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Local Weather
5 comments:
Great snow in Two Rivers, wow!
It looks like he won't have to share his M&M's this time. Best of luck and I will be "watching".
What are the blue plastic rings?
How does it work that dog booties come in sizes and they get shipped in advance, but the final call on which dogs will race doesn't happen until closer to race day?
Thanks for all the coverage, and best of luck!
The blue Plastic rings are runner plastics that slide on the bottom of the aluminum runners. We have gotten several trail reports that indicate the trail is a little rough in spots and has rocks and gravel showing ..... usually from wind! Anyhow, Allen will change his plastics so that scratched up plastics don't slow him down. Each ring is one side of the sled.
Allen currently has a "two weeks out" dream team for the YQ. He knows their boot sizes and has packed accordingly. He then packed an additional larger boot - for a total of 15 dogs (one more than necessary). Then he packed XL and fleece boots at every checkpoint as a "just in case". And then he went through the route and added about 200 spare boots of different sizes at various points.
Yesterday, you should have seen him standing outside at 40 below zero with his hand on his chin... pondering the race (he really was the "Thinker" frozen in time!
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