Zack Steer

[mamamia]

Everyone should remember his surprising and delightful Iditarod success last year. I've been searching for information from this pre-race season trying to get some clue about how he might do this year but I haven't been able to find much except for his standing in the Knik 200. Does anyone have anything to share or links to post? Dilli? You are good at mining the net for info. Have you turned up anything?

[musherbryan]

what do you want or need to know, I know the kennel pretty well..... The dogs are looking great the musher too...

[mamamia]

Wow! Thanks for replying! Gosh what do I want to know....

You already said the team (dogs and musher) were looking great. How does Zack feel his chances are this year? Does he feel like he can do as well as last year? I just watched a video interview with him from ADN ( http://community.adn.com/mini_apps/vmix ... 27&GID=118 ) in which he talked about not being a full time musher but that his priorities were his family, the lodge and mushing - in that order- and that he did not have the kennel depth that the professional mushers have to pull from. Does he feel that he is at a disadvantage this year because of that?

How has the training been this year? How many miles did he get on the team? Will he be returning with the same dogs? How many? Same lead dog? Can he share something about his lead dog? (We love dog stories!)

Please let him know -if you are able- that I (we.. I think I can safely speak for several of us on this board) thoroughly enjoyed his race last year and were impressed with what a smart race he ran. He was kind of a stelth musher. He kept popping up closer and closer to the front of the pack. I wish I had the Cabelas archives so I could review our observations of his race to jog my memory.

Tell Zack please that I have him in my top 10 but I have yet to decide on a position and invite his wife to join us here for the race.

Thanks

[mamamia]

I found this on the Crow Village blog: http://feyer1.blogspot.com/

We had lots of giggles last year about Zack and his dirty parka. I almost asked the poster above if he had a new one this year but I didn't want to be rude (my mama raised me right!) Anyway, it seems that question has been answered.

giggle

[txbennett]

After watching his stealth movements in the race last year, with astonishment, I have picked Zach as my dark horse winner this year. For a part-time musher with a smaller kennel, he had an amazing race.

TXbennett

[Minipins444]

Just wondering...is Zack running this year?

[MelanieGouldFanBrian]

Zack is Not on the musher listing.

[Minipins444]

Thank you for confirming that for me.
I wonder why.