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More video of Nic in Koyuk:
Q: People watching, they want to know how you found the trail and how you navigated around finding the trail. That's all I want to ask you.
N: To get back to the trail? Gee and haw... that's what fries their brains. GPS ... we want to go east... gee... when I got to the line where that overland trail's supposed to be, there weren't nothing there. Just punchy snow. So I did a couple of loops to make sure I didn't miss it.
Q: And then you just headed back on the sea ice to re-cross the trail?
N: yeah, .. I'm looking, I'm looking... and finally I saw waaaay off in the distance - you could only see one on one side and not one on the other, that's how far apart the trail markers were. <wry laugh> It was challenging. But I'm glad we found the good [correct?] one. Happy to be here.
Q: whatever was asked is clipped from the video starting and stopping - I'm guessing they are editing these things to be a short as possible to get them uploaded. I assume they asked Nic something about Joar, but I'm not sure what from Nic's response.
N: Well, he doesn't have as many as me, but he's been *trying* to win for years. This is the first year I'm trying.
...Nobody's won, but he's in good shape. <something inaudible> It depends how long he leaves in front of me, maybe he's making me a trail and I'll follow the same trail.
Q: He thought he was following you. He didn't know he was first.
N: He knows I took a wrong turn on the trail by now.
...Fun stuff.
Not a happy fellow, but also doing a good job of keeping it to himself.
What's interesting is I'm not sure Nic understands where he went wrong. It sounds like he thinks he was following a trail which should have continued on the "overland trail" when he got to the shore, but it wasn't marked and there was just punchy snow there. I think with little visual reference, it's very easy to get turned around out there and not really know what you did.