Re: Ride The Happy Steps With Aliy
Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 12:04 am
Usually the Steps have pretty good snow (although this year they didn't until a DAY or so before the mushers went through). Often the problem is the giant ruts for anyone other then the first 10 or 20 mushers. I've been through there went the rut was over 4 feet deep and about the exact width of a sled. If you managed to get in the rut, you would ride your brake for all you were worth (although it was probably just scratching frozen dirt and not too effective) until the corners. I also remember one year that the third 'step' just plunged us over a cliff ('04, I think). I doubt anyone stayed upright on that.
Karen
Karen