Re: Skwentna to Deshka AKA The End
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:58 pmTravis Beals was late leaving Skwentna because he was waiting to have some fresh-baked banana bread some volunteers were making. #priorities 
Smart man!
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Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:58 pmRe: Skwentna to Deshka AKA The End
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 4:11 pm Smart man!
Re: Skwentna to Deshka AKA The End
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 5:57 pmAnybody know what's going on with the back of the pack? Will T's tracker hasn't moved in hours, and the group that left after him is almost in FL.
Re: Skwentna to Deshka AKA The End
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:02 pmThe Standings show him leaving RP at 8:40 this morning. The tracker shows him 2 miles beyond RP. Something is up. No idea what.
Re: Skwentna to Deshka AKA The End
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:10 pmHe's finally moving. But he was there for over 8 hours. Looked like for awhile the others that were on the trail to FL were stopping and slow going. They're all finally moving along. They all seem to stop at the Steps. Wonder if they got wet and had to dry out?
Re: Skwentna to Deshka AKA The End
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:13 pmMartin just pulled out of SKW. Team looks less than enthusiastic. Hopefully they shake off the stiffness.
Re: Skwentna to Deshka AKA The End
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:18 pmHal Hanson got off the trail a bit before FL. If you replay the tracker, you can see he goes astray as he crosses the Happy River, then backtracks.
Re: Skwentna to Deshka AKA The End
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:55 pmIt took Daugherty 10 hr 13 min to go from RP to FL. That's only 30 miles, so something happened, I think. 
Re: Skwentna to Deshka AKA The End
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:08 pmflowerpower wrote:It took Daugherty 10 hr 13 min to go from RP to FL. That's only 30 miles, so something happened, I think.
It sounds like the horses at Rainy Pass continued to be a problem, so they're having the mushers go through the checkpoint and camp out past it. (Check out Danny Seavey's post here: https://www.facebook.com/seaveysididari ... 8505315002) Rewinding the tracker, it looks like that's what happened - instead of taking his rest in the checkpoint, Larry took it a couple of miles past, which is why his run time seems so long.
Re: Skwentna to Deshka AKA The End
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:09 pmChad Stoddard is in for Rookie of the Year! He split up the twins.