Rachael Scdoris

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Rachael Scdoris

Postby Johncn » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:54 am

Hello,

The Anchorage Daily News had an article today about Rachael Scdoris, and Joe Runyan.

It was written by Kevin Klott. Comments to: [url]kklott@adn.com[/url]

Scdoris gets assist from former Iditarod champ
2008 RACE: 1989 winner will be escort after injured Osmar can't go.

http://www.adn.com/sports/story/306481.html

I'd like to link articles to each musher to their "Follow That Musher!" thread this year if possible :)

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Re: Rachel Scdoris

Postby Di* » Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:16 am

Thanks for that link John, great article! Without Jon Little's prerace articles I've been starved for real news/info on the musher's preparations. This helped feed the fire! :)
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Re: Rachel Scdoris

Postby Moose » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:17 am

Linking articles to the musher's thread is a great idea, John. Why didn't the rest of us think of it another year? Hey, it's good to have an inspired lead dog as we had down the trail. :D
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Re: Rachel Scdoris

Postby bourgeois_rage » Fri Feb 08, 2008 12:41 pm

I don't mean to hijack Rachel's thread, but I'm going to setup RSS feeds on a News Aggregator for each musher. I hope to stay diligent about posting articles when they come up. I used to do this for a University of Cincinnati sports site and it can take quite a bit of time, but I think I can handle it for a couple of months.
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Re: Rachel Scdoris

Postby boo » Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:45 pm

I'm no reporter....but I'm reporting here. The food drop was a BLAST!!!!!

Like we don't all spend WAY too much time on here, and I have to go apply for a job today....but I just gotta report on the food drop....like take you all there so you can drool and whet your appetites for the beginning of the race!!!! Flew up Monday morning at 6:45 from Redmond, OR to Seattle to Anchorage to Kenai....was there by 2:30. Joe, Rachael and Jerry were out on a training run, so I found out who was on the truck and snooped around. Visualize this....a HUGE bag of clean dog coats, two huge bags of dog booties, sets of four powdered with Gold Bond blue inside and packaged in bags of 64 (do the math and you'll know why) :) , bags of gorp, almonds, boxes of wet wipe singles, gatorade, 19 adorable bundles with each holding chemical hand warmers, chore gloves, clean socks, a few bundles of first layer clothing, almost 900 pounds of dog kibble in cute 18 pound bags (um, how many is that???----50). Anyway, everything was poised and ready to make magic.
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We took some time to kick back before going from our wonderful digs at Clam Gulch Lodge (you rock, Gary and Jeffrey!!!)...to Kenai and Carlisle shipping docks...
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Tuesday we marked bags for each of the checkpoints and loaded them with 'personals'.....our name for them anyway. Human snacks, drinks, frozen food, CHEESECAKE, wet wipes, lip goo, glove/sock combos, chemical packs, etc. As soon as they were put together in the living room, they went in two huge bags back out into the COLD garage. All the kibble got loaded into the truck, with salmon in salmon sleeves they'd prepared, too. At 4:36:42 (there is a joke in there for Jerry, Rachael and Kirsten, if they read this :) --- yeah, you won, Yolanda Cameroose!!!) Timmy, Tawny, Merissa and Daniel pulled up at Carlisle shipping in Kenai.....LET THE FUN BEGIN!!!
Bagging yummy things for the dogs...Tawny, Daniel (behind her) Merissa, Jerry (back to camera) me, Timmy, Rachael
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Discovery crew documenting....do I need a models release??? Hope not.
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Joe Runyan bagging....in a little over four hours, we bagged lots of stuff.....thanks, Kirsten for the beverages and the munchies and for doing the dog drop chores while we worked here....YOU ROCK!!!!! And for these snaps, while my hands were covered in goo.... :D
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We have fun whatever we are doing and wherever we are....
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Fishhead, fishhead, fishhead stew.......
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Jerry watching as one of five pallets gets forklifted onto the scales.....
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Safely tucked into a refer truck, headed for Anchorage.....YEAH!!!
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We stayed up Wwwayyy too late Tuesday night, feasting and visiting, all relieved that Food Drop was done...and the next day we start the next set of tasks, marching towards March 1st. Wednesday I departed Clam Gulch Lodge early afternoon, after giving all the Iditabuddies good luck wishes, prayers and good vibes to Rachael and crew....
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I kid you not, this is the view from INSIDE the livingroom at Clam Gulch Lodge!!!! I HIGHLY recommend it!!!!
Mount Redoubt in all her glory across Cook Inlet, eagles, nice new snow, nice and cold-ish....
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AND I SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST.....KIRSTEN.....
From one handler to her replacement....YOU ROCK!!!! We make a great team and it was a blast being in the same place for a couple of days!!! Thank you, thank you.....you are amazing! And nuts enough to survive this bunch!!!! Obviously :D :D
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Re: Rachael Scdoris

Postby ThisSpaceForRent » Thu Feb 14, 2008 3:26 pm

Great Post boo...thank you,thank you,thank you...

Looks like a BLAST, good to see you didn't exclude YOUR pic...I noticed in all but one photo we got to see your back...LOL

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Re: Rachael Scdoris

Postby fladogfan » Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:17 pm

Glad you're back Boo,

Thanks for the report and photos, gives a little idea of all the work involved in racing the Iditarod :o :shock:
Beautiful pic of Mt. Redoubt :)

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Re: Rachael Scdoris

Postby ThisSpaceForRent » Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:36 pm

Fishhead, fishhead, fishhead stew.......


Lyrics to Fish Heads by by Dr Demento if you wait long enough the song will load and play...


Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm

Fish heads, Fish heads
Rolly polly Fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads
Eat them up, Yummm

In the morning
Laughing, happy
Fish Heads
In the evening
Floating in the soup...


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Re: Rachael Scdoris

Postby flowerpower » Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:57 pm

Wow! Thanks so much for sharing the pictures! It makes the enormity of the task seem so much more real to us armchair cyber mushers! :D
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Re: Rachael Scdoris

Postby boo » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:56 pm

VERY different song than the one I was thinking of, and we were singing while we were packing fish heads....Hobo Jim and Libby Riddles version.....MUCH more appropriate for the Iditarod...lyrics:

Don't want no food
That comes from a can
And I don't care if it's catfood or spam
Gotta have real food
If I'm going to survive
It's fish head stew that keeps me alive.
Fish head, fish head, fish head stew
Fish heads looking back at you
Makes me feel good thru and thru
Gotta have some fish head stew.
When I get home
Well I won't be blue 'cause I can have
some fish head stew
and if you'd like
I'll share some with you
Fish head, fish head, fish head stew.
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