Discovery Team Gizmos

[CynCyn37]

He said he was miked up at the start. Maybe so.... I hope so!!!

[tranquilis]

Lance? Oh, I hope so! That'd rock!

[Johncn]

Hey There,

There are two somewhat similar but different things at work. One is the list of mushers with GPS tracking, and then the list of Discovery Channel IditaStars wired for both video and sound the entire trip. The list of GPS mushers is much larger, I believe.

From an earlier thread, the Discovery mushers are rumored to be:

2 are professional...one male & one female
2 are rookies
1 is from another country
1 was a rookie last year

http://mushing.bssd.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=117&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=30

So anybody know which are the names of the IditaStars?

2 Professionals: 1 Male ? / 1 Female ?
2 Rookies: Rick Holt & ?
1 Foreign Musher: ?
1 Rookie Last Year: Sigrid I've heard ??

Pardon me if this is old news, but been a bit busy with the crew, and not keeping up as much as I'd like. I'm HOPING someone can clue us in before we go live tomorrow at 8:00 a.m

Regards,

Johncn

[boo]

Just to clarify....Joe and Rach are NOT being covered by Discovery CHANNEL, but by Discovery Films....different entity. The film crew following Joe and Rach's adventures are doing a feature-length, for-theatre-release production, probable premiere at Cannes Nov. 2009. Vikram Jayanti is the award-winning filmaker behind this endeavor. He won an Academy Award for his documentary When We Were Kings.

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories ... 4255.shtml

[Heidi]

Just to clarify....Joe and Rach are NOT being covered by Discovery CHANNEL, but by Discovery Films....different entity. The film crew following Joe and Rach's adventures are doing a feature-length, for-theatre-release production, probable premiere at Cannes Nov. 2009. Vikram Jayanti is the award-winning filmaker behind this endeavor. He won an Academy Award for his documentary When We Were Kings.

Sweeeeeeet!!!

Thanks for that scoop Boo!!!

I imagine Rachael and Joe will get to go to a bunch of cool film premieres too!

Edited: I just read that article. Wow! I didn't know Joe Runyan was 59! Not that that's old, but I just thought he was much younger.

[tanglefoot]

this all looks like the same kit they put on the sled for me when we did the tv thing here this season if anyone remembers it from the cabs site (RIP). the camera guy i was talking to about it was showing me the kit, very robust but the mountings are prone to moving about so expect lots of this is what the sky looks like or this is my left bunnyboot haha . it can get worn with lots of jolting about and begin to move. its really cool stuff, we were looking into it for using in training so we can annalize what the dogs are doing and how we can improve. cool stuff.

[mamamia]

2 are professional...one male & one female
2 are rookies
1 is from another country
1 was a rookie last year

That's right! she was tormenting us with clues! I guess we will just have to wait and see

[MotorWerk]

As there was only one rookie last year, and that was Sigrid, we are now left with 1 male pro and 2 rookies.

[mamamia]

As there was only one rookie last year, and that was Sigrid

Me thinks the pretty Norse lady with the charming smile has blinded you MW. There were quite a few rookies last year.

[MotorWerk]

Hehe. I know. I'm biased.