Scratches 2018

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Re: Scratches 2018

Postby libby the lab » Thu Mar 15, 2018 8:46 pm

Steve and Tara are withdraawn at Unk :(
I was hoping since there were 2 of them they would let them continue.
With Marcel scratching they were 90 miles behind :(
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Re: Scratches 2018

Postby tanglefoot » Thu Mar 15, 2018 11:02 pm

13 out if the race now with some good teams and mushers in the list,
Tough tough year this year all round for mushers and dogs.
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Re: Scratches 2018

Postby tanglefoot » Thu Mar 15, 2018 11:04 pm

Louise and rob are not happy, someone leeked his scratching before itc did on facebook and it’s caused some trouble.
Whoever it is that did that is in for some trouble. Lousie is NOT happy.
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Re: Scratches 2018

Postby elsietee » Fri Mar 16, 2018 1:53 pm

But I would think with him resting 11 hours in Kaltag, then only travelling 30 miles along the trail, resting 4 hours, travelling 1000 ft down the trail, turning around and returning to rest for 12+ hours, then turning around and returning to Kaltag - it was a pretty foregone conclusion that he was likely to scratch. Not exactly rocket science.
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Re: Scratches 2018

Postby tanglefoot » Fri Mar 16, 2018 2:03 pm

Sounds like jim lanier and scott jansen had an adve tur
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Re: Scratches 2018

Postby Eggs » Fri Mar 16, 2018 3:39 pm

ITC press release: https://d3r6t1k4mqz5i.cloudfront.net/wp ... pdf?x14076
Veteran Iditarod musher Jim Lanier, of Chugiak, and veteran Iditarod musher Scott Janssen, of Anchorage, scratched at the Safety checkpoint at 11:30 am today.

Lanier scratched out of concern for his race team and personal health reasons. Janssen scratched out of concern for Lanier’s safety. Janssen had come upon Lanier and stayed with Lanier until both were safely transported to the Safety checkpoint.

“At approximately 7 a.m. this morning, the Iditarod Trail Committee was alerted that mushers Jim Lanier and Scott Janssen had requested emergency assistance due to weather conditions near an area between the checkpoints of White Mountain and Safety known as ‘the Blowhole’,” said Iditarod race marshal Mark Nordman. “A search and rescue team was immediately notified and then a plan was put in place to safely extract both dog teams and both mushers. Both race teams are currently being mushed to Nome. I met Jim and Scott at the Nome airport when they arrived by helicopter and they are with their loved ones and also in good health. I’d like to thank the local Nome SAR, as well as Mike Owens. I’d also like to thank Iditarod finisher Jessie Royer, who was at Safety this morning at the time of the notification. I asked her to go out for a welfare check and she was able to transport Jim and Scott back to the Safety checkpoint by snowmachine.”

Lanier had 13 dogs in his team and Janssen had 11 dogs in his team at the time they made the decision to scratch.
Jessie! Wonder who drove the teams to Nome. Anybody heard?
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Re: Scratches 2018

Postby fladogfan » Fri Mar 16, 2018 4:07 pm

Was wondering that too Eggs.
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Re: Scratches 2018

Postby Eggs » Fri Mar 16, 2018 8:32 pm

''I'm not going to make it:'' Janssen describes Iditarod rescue

http://www.ktva.com/story/37746650/im-n ... rod-rescue
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Re: Scratches 2018

Postby fladogfan » Sat Mar 17, 2018 4:41 am

Eggs wrote:''I'm not going to make it:'' Janssen describes Iditarod rescue

http://www.ktva.com/story/37746650/im-n ... rod-rescue


If a musher doesn't make it to the Burled arch because of stopping to help a fellow musher, could he win one of the awards? What is the name of the one the mushers themselves vote for?
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Re: Scratches 2018

Postby Eggs » Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:14 am

Two saved
By craigmedred on March 17, 2018
https://craigmedred.news/2018/03/17/two-saved/
Janssen, who Hofstetter did not know, was coherent enough to explain that he had a satellite phone with him. The cyclists found it for him and called Janssen’s wife waiting in Nome at the Iditarod finish line.

Meanwhile, knowing that Iditarod mushers carry emergency-locator beacons, the men searched through the dog sleds, found one of those and pushed the rescue button.
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