WM - Safety - Nome

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Re: WM - Safety - Nome

Postby fladogfan » Sat Mar 17, 2018 11:19 am

I was wrong (imagine that :roll: ) we do have Norwegian bookends!
Got here just in time to see them in chute.
Luckily had checked chat room and mira was there who told me to look at Nome cam. Fortunately it was up and I just had to refresh it and perfect timing, there was a team in the chute.

Sure do miss Kale's streaming.
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Re: WM - Safety - Nome

Postby mira » Sat Mar 17, 2018 1:02 pm

fladogfan wrote:No book ends mira. But am I reading correctly, will Nic be awarded the fastest Safety to Nome award?

Or is that WM to Nome?


It is from Safety (if it still exists) and that award could have been delivered when he arrived. That time is really impressive, if it's not record it must be close.

My oldest daughter and I watched the three last team into Nome.
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Re: WM - Safety - Nome

Postby elsietee » Sat Mar 17, 2018 6:41 pm

Are they going to broadcast the banquet on FB, does anyone know?
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Re: WM - Safety - Nome

Postby elsietee » Sat Mar 17, 2018 7:40 pm

Nice interview with Pete after the finish, talking about the challenges and right at the end, interesting stuff about his leaders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cums_nWU1jg
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Re: WM - Safety - Nome

Postby elsietee » Sat Mar 17, 2018 7:49 pm

Interview with Joar (in Norwegian) in February before the race - talking about the trust the dogs have in the musher:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAjnImGvH3Q
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Re: WM - Safety - Nome

Postby elsietee » Sat Mar 17, 2018 8:15 pm

Funny interview with Joar posted after the finish - he talks about his decision to go on to Iditarod:

https://www.facebook.com/IditarodTrailC ... 027581929/

His FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/JoarRacingSleddogs/
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Re: WM - Safety - Nome

Postby fladogfan » Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:43 am

They are working on taking the arch down. Or should say, move it to the side.
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Re: WM - Safety - Nome

Postby elsietee » Mon Mar 19, 2018 1:54 pm

ITC published three FB live interviews with Joar, Aliy, and Dee Dee - and they are great. Much less fluffy than the usual interviews and lots of great insights.

Go here:

Joar:
https://www.facebook.com/IditarodTrailC ... 027581929/
(there's a very quick part where they start to interview him, but lose their "live" connection, so restart it to the above longer interview:
https://www.facebook.com/IditarodTrailC ... 484249150/)

Aliy:
https://www.facebook.com/IditarodTrailC ... 360849029/
(one of the more interesting comments (actually, there were tons, but...) was the part about how they guarded their dogs for the first six hours until drug testing was complete).

Dee Dee:
https://www.facebook.com/IditarodTrailC ... 867381545/


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Oh - and searching for the URLs, I just found another one with Ray Redington (haven't listened yet):
https://www.facebook.com/IditarodTrailC ... 564244842/ )

and one from Nic:
https://www.facebook.com/IditarodTrailC ... 184360880/

and one from Mitch:
https://www.facebook.com/IditarodTrailC ... 454365353/
[deleted second URL - it was just the last part of the interview again]


ROTY Jessie Holmes:
WARNING - the sound doesn't start until 1:45 into the interview - it has taken me
all afternoon to figure that out.
https://www.facebook.com/IditarodTrailC ... 411036624/

Ritchie:
https://www.facebook.com/IditarodTrailC ... 007716931/
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Re: WM - Safety - Nome

Postby elsietee » Mon Mar 19, 2018 2:32 pm

Best quote from Joar:

"And two foxes ran across the trail in front of us and just sat there, looking at us.
... and the dogs went apesh*t."

(great story, esp, when I remember that night and remember how slowly he was progressing down the trail. A local had been talking to Ray who'd said "I can't catch the front guys" and the local said "but the trail over there is really snowy and slow" - and watching Joar's slow progress, you could see that).
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Re: WM - Safety - Nome

Postby elsietee » Mon Mar 19, 2018 2:57 pm

Best Quote from Ray:

Q: how do you deal with those difficult decisions about when to leave a check point when you're sleep deprived?

Ray: It gets a lot easier the more teams arrive behind you.
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