More Beargrease Prep

More Beargrease Prep
Jan 24th 2009
wolfmoonsleddog
Midwest
Location: Finland, MN
Time - 8:15am
Temperature: minus 17 degrees F
Conditions: Clear, cold and frosty
Forecast: Partly cloudy with a chance of flurries today, mostly cloudy tomorrow. Highs in the single digits, lows around 25 below

Well, things have been very busy once again. Today we are heading to the pre-race vet check, the mushers’ meeting and the opening banquet, where we will determine our starting positions for the race tomorrow (wow, it’s actually tomorrow…)

Yesterday we packed our sleds (and I spent the better part of an hour scraping hoar frost off my sled bag). We took our last run before the race and everybody did really well. I have narrowed the group down to nine dogs (I’m leaving Bluie, one of the older dogs off so I can give another two-year-old some racing experience). So I’ll be taking nine dogs to vet check today and then decide on the eight who will race with me tomorrow. I have two leaders and seven two-year-olds.

The dogs are:

Inga (leader) - http://www.racingsiberians.com/Huskies/Inga/inga.html

Fiona (leader) - http://www.racingsiberians.com/Huskies/Fiona/fiona.html

Avery - http://www.racingsiberians.com/Huskies/Avery/avery.html

Hjordis - http://www.racingsiberians.com/Huskies/Hjordis/hjordis.html

Nic - http://www.racingsiberians.com/Huskies/Nick/nic.html

Yoda - http://www.racingsiberians.com/Huskies/Yoda/yoda.html

Ghengis - http://www.racingsiberians.com/Huskies/Gengis/gengis.html

Hagar - http://www.racingsiberians.com/Huskies/Hagar/hagar.html

Kahn - http://www.racingsiberians.com/Huskies/Khan/khan.html

Note that the pages linked to are a little out of date.

I’ll try to get some pics of the dogs up if I have time before the race.

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5 Responses to “More Beargrease Prep”
Dave Lukosik on 24 Jan 2009 at 11:43 pm # edit this

Thanks for the last minute post before the race. You are in good hands with leaders like Inga and Fiona, they are champions! The rest of the team looks like a happy bunch of Snow Dogs, watch that mischevious Genghis! Have a great adventure and alot of fun and commradrie with your team. Looking forward to your post race commentary!

Forrest & Joan on 26 Jan 2009 at 11:49 am # edit this

Great job..Can’t wait to hear about your race, I told you you have great trainers Forrest/Joan

Dave Lukosik on 27 Jan 2009 at 12:07 am # edit this

Congratulations Alice on completing the John Beargrease 150 with all 8 of your sleddogs! I hope they have a nice Red Lantern Trophy for you! Those 16+ hours on the trail with only 8 + hours of rest(I’m sure you were busy taking care of your dogs during that rest time for the dogs) was one long day! What an adventure!!!

Jessee in NC on 28 Jan 2009 at 12:56 pm # edit this

Alice, Congrats on Finishing the race of a dream with that awesome team!! You make us southerners proud!
Hope to hear more about your adventures soon
-Jessee and Team SouthernSpirit

Ellie on 29 Jan 2009 at 8:55 am # edit this

Hi Alice:
My name is Ellie and I am VERY good friends with Jenn and Blake Freking. Jenn’s mom and I grew up together in Boston. I just want to say congratulations on finishing your first Beargrease Race. Job well done!!!
Regards,
Ellie