,,,,,,Talk about a tough Alaskan....Lance won the Yukon Quest And the Iditarod this winter.....He is the first person to ever do that...He examplifies the saying Ya gotta be tough to live in Alaska....I was actually rootin for DeeDee but I guess the trail was rougher than a cob....Sorry this isn,t really the forum for it but They are some of the top athletes in the world and there arn,t many things more Alaskan than a Husky...
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Posts: 3445 | Location: Copper River Valley , Prudhoe Bay , and other interesting locales | Registered: 19 November 2006
gum: Yeah, I hear ya about Deedee. I was kinda hoping she'd win again too. All of those guys are tough - know I wouldn't wanna try it. The 1 sled dog I have is handfull enough for me not to mention a whole yard filled with 'em. I gotta admit tho, they're my favorite breed (if you can call it that)of dog. Yes, a hearty congrats to all of 'em - especially the dogs. Bear in Fairbanks
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Posts: 1544 | Location: Fairbanks, Ak., USA | Registered: 16 March 2002
Lance ran a helluva race and he deserved the win!! What surprises me though is the way Jeff King and Martin Buser have kinda given up on the Iditarod, saying it's time to pass on the torch. Hell, Susan Butcher never gave up, even when she had cancer. The trail was definetly a bad one this year, not enough fresh stuff and lots of icey, windy, cold conditions. Lance took advantage of it and it paid off in spades!
Breeding dogs is an art. To line them up in a string is another. To understand each character on your part is another. To see them work for you is what you instilled in them-team work. I think Lance deserves the "baton". I was pulling for Lance from the start and he is truly the "best" thus far. Two big races "back to back" how incredible is that?
Posts: 1019 | Location: foothills of the Brooks Range | Registered: 01 April 2005
Talk about tough, the Yukon Quest then 12 days later the Iditarod, and with 9 of the same dogs, WOW a thousand times. ----- I have always been interested in the Iditarod since 1999 when I took a great Moose in the middle of the Farewell Burn, which the trail goes straight through between Rohn checkpoint and Nikalai checkpoint. We rode horseback down the trail for several miles then hunted 4 miles off. I tried to picture the place in dead winter realizing that hungry Bears and Moose occupy the premises and only see man when the race occurs. The trail was straight as an arrow for some 40 miles across the Burn which was created by a huge fire that scorched 1.5 million acres. I will remember it and the unembercumbered view of Danali and Foraker until the day they put me in the ground. Good shooting.
phurley
Posts: 2367 | Location: KY | Registered: 22 September 2004
Good shooting.
