More Iditarod News

More Iditarod News
Mar 15th 2010
wolfmoonsleddog
Southeast
Location: Armuchee, GA
Time - 11:16am Eastern Daylight Time
Temperature: 48 degrees F (9C)
Conditions: Cloudy, damp
Forecast: Cloudy today, lows in the 30s, partly cloudy tomorrow with highs in the 50s



Above picture: Okay, this is not the Iditarod. And, although it was taken in our backyard in Georgia, it was taken a couple of weeks ago, not while I have been here. But I will mention that it is more snow than we have gotten there in years. [and here all my Minnesota friends are laughing because we are used to so much more snow up there].

I must say, it’s been a weird Winter in the Southeast, according to what I’ve been hearing. From what I’ve heard, it’s actually been a Winter, albiet certainly not a Northern MN Winter. Right now I would have expected warm sunny weather and leaves popping out all over the place. Um, no. It poured down rain and stormed the first couple of days I was back and since then it’s been cloudy and cool (with a good dose of humidity thrown in for good measure). More like late Fall than Spring.

ANYways, back to our previously scheduled programming and actual title topic of this post…

First, the awesome news: Justin Savidis’ dog Whitey has been found! He is back with his people now and I know they are beyond glad to see him. Lucky dog! According to the Snowhook Kennels blog, he was ”a bit skinny, a bit worse for wear, but all in all in good health and spirits.” That’s all that matters. He is back home now and all of us who have been worrying about him can rest easy now.

Blake has just come into Kaltag, so he is off the Yukon River. He is down to 11 dogs as he has had to drop someone else. I don’t know who yet. The other four dogs that he dropped were Baldy, Trouble, Roland and Einstein. They are currently with Phil and I understand they are doing well. Donna Quante has posted some post-drop pictures of them here - http://picasaweb.google.com/djqhusky/BlakeFreking# (Taku and Attila are also pictured. They went to Alaska with Blake and Phil but Blake did not take them on the Iditarod).

And last but certainly not least, the front-runners have reached Koyuk. At last check, the top four were Lance Mackey, Jeff King, Hans Gatt and Ken Anderson. It seems Hugh Neff has dropped to 5th.

Over and out for now.

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Dave Lukosik on 15 Mar 2010 at 8:19 pm # edit this

Beautiful rocky outcrop in your backyard! This has been a Winter to remember in the Southern mountains! Boone, NC got more than 40 inches, nearby Beech Mountain, 10 feet! that’s right! I hope the skiers were happy this year! I’m ready for Spring so to get stuff moved up to Little Switzerland and start putting in the kennel fencing! We may have an Iditarod winner on Tuesday, guess who?