All Alaska Sweepstakes

[tanglefoot]

some nice new reports on the northern lights site

http://northernlightmedia.com/sweepstakes/

[dilli]

Whoa .. THUD ...

King Jeff is listed as #1 *INBOUND* into Haven .. 01:57:00

WHOA .. new updated stats from *INBOUND* First Chance .. are these right for Burmeister and Smyth?
1 Lance Mackey 19:56:00 03/27
2 Jeff King 22:55:00 03/27
3 Mitch Seavey 23:40:00
4 Aaron Burmeister 23:53:00
5. Cim Smyth 00:09:00

I'm stunned, dazed, confused.

[aren]

crazy pace, im guess its just due to the closeness of the check points, but also that is not nearly as half as long as the irod...just hope those guys remember to rest their dogs plenty...im sure they will.

dilli whats the winning time for the kobuk 440 average at? could give us some idea of modern times on a 400 miler race.

As far as I have been able to find, the winning time last year was approx 64:05 hr. Martin was the winner.

[dilli]

Tangles

dilli whats the winning time for the kobuk 440 average at? could give us some idea of modern times on a 400 miler race.

Well Tangles, I'd tell you if i could, but unfortunately the old Kotzebue Mushers Association website went poof and the new KMA website, http://kotzebuedogmushersassociation.com , hasn't added any archived race info to it .. Hope that data wasn't lost and gets added soon.

[dilli]

Great News Miner article this morning .. and how cool is this for AAS race history buffs
http://newsminer.com/news/2008/mar/28/safety-roadhouse-springs-life-mushers-tackle-sweep/

Partial quote from the article ..

Safety Roadhouse springs to life as mushers tackle Sweepstakes
By KEVIN KLOTT, For the News-Miner
Published Friday, March 28, 2008


In 1993, Shelley was a biology student at San Diego State. She traveled to Nome for a five-month global-warming project at the end of Cougar Rock Road outside of town. Every two weeks she would fly into Nome to shower and re-ration food supplies.

The first trip into town, she walked through Nome’s only cemetery. She passed a gravestone with the words “Baby Hegnes” chiseled in stone. Shelley was aghast: Hegnes was her mother’s maiden name.

“That was really weird,” she said. “So I called my family and asked how common that name is.”

Turned out Baby Hegnes was a deceased child of John Hegnes, her great-grandfather and the winner of the inaugural All-Alaska Sweepstakes in 1908.

Since the discovery, Shelley — a librarian at Rabbit Creek Elementary in Anchorage — has dedicated much of her life to sharing her great-grandfather’s adventurous past.
.....
To honor his legacy and the centennial celebration of the Sweepstakes, Shelley brought a suitcase to Nome filled with hundreds of old letters her great-grandfather wrote years ago.

[glengarrian]

Thanks for that, dilli. One of the great things about this forum is the knowledgeable people who frequent it. To exactly paraphrase Henry Ford "You don't ahve to know a lot , you just have to know people who know a lot." Again thanks folks for sharing your knowledge.

[tanglefoot]

saw the news miner psot...fantastic really good bit of history!

[tanglefoot]

post on jeff site,
there some new stories and photos while we ALL wait to see the standings refreshed..

http://www.huskyhomestead.blogspot.com/

seems like team king are F5ing away as much as us guys!

[dilli]

Today's NOAA forecast .. excellent conditions to shatter previous AAS records.

AKZ210-290245-
NORTHERN AND INTERIOR SEWARD PENINSULA-
INCLUDING...BUCKLAND...DEERING...CANDLE...COUNCIL...HAYCOCK...
PILGRIM SPRINGS...SERPENTINE HOT SPRINGS...TAYLOR
336 AM ADT FRI MAR 28 2008

.TODAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY. ISOLATED SNOW SHOWERS. HIGHS 5 TO 10
ABOVE. LIGHT WINDS.


.TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 10 BELOW TO ZERO. LIGHT WINDS.

AKZ211-290245-
SOUTHERN SEWARD PENINSULA COAST-
INCLUDING...NOME...WHITE MOUNTAIN...GOLOVIN
336 AM ADT FRI MAR 28 2008
.TODAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY. FLURRIES. HIGHS 5 TO 10 ABOVE.
EAST WINDS TO 10 MPH.

.TONIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 5 BELOW TO 5 ABOVE. SOUTHEAST
WINDS TO 10 MPH.

[dilli]

Josh has put up a new podcast .. very interesting.

http://www.iditablog.com/