by elsietee » Fri Mar 11, 2022 6:07 pm
OK, this will be the last one until Sunday - I'm going to be out of cell range, so won't be able to check, let alone type.
Dallas on the river on the way to Galena:
This is the first time we're really, really on our schedule. We're 17-18 miles from Galena, which is fully intentional. Judging by the piles of straw I passed along the way, I assume Brent went to Galena for his 8, which makes sense, or maybe he just takes a short stop and moves on. Not that it really matters yet. We've got a few more runs before it really starts to matter. I've got a great plan for the rest of this race - it worked for me before. I like this part of the race.
The good news is, 20 miles outside of Cripple, one of my dogs lost a bootie, so I stopped the team and went up there to replace the bootie - and I had it in my hand and one of my dogs - Tamale (sp?) - who was one of the worst eaters and had been sick - thought it was a piece of food and jumped at it to try to eat it. 'You're that hungry, huh??' so I went and got snacks out of my sled and these guys have just been devouring food. This last run, I went through nearly 50 lbs of food between Cripple and Ruby, for 12 dogs. Every hour I'd stop and feed them and they'd eat until they were like little balloons and then an hour later they're ready for more. I'm going to get them filled up, then back off a little on the food, just to keep them with that appetite. But if we go into the coast with that appetite, I think we have a fighting chance.
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Repotted english person in the Sierra foothills, CA
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