Puntilla start time set for Iron Dog finale
It's Iron Dog official: The first teams will be leaving Puntilla starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday morning. They are expected to arrive into the Big Lake finish between 12:30-1 p.m.
All teams will leave McGrath by 4 a.m., then in 10-minute intervals, with the goal of getting everyone onto Big Lake by 5 p.m.
Here are the go times out of McGrath:
Team 7: 12:33:20 a.m.
Team 10: 1:39:54 a.m.
Team6: 1:49:29 a.m.
Team 14: 2:53:20 a.m.
Team 5: 3:32:20 a.m.
Team 12: 4:00:00 a.m.
Team 17: 4:05:00 a.m.
Team 21: 4:10:00 a.m.
Team 49: 4:20:00 a.m.
Team 8: 4:30:00 a.m.
Team 24: 4:40:00 a.m.
Team 22: 4:50:00 a.m.
Team 37: 5:00:00 a.m.
See you on the ice tomorrow!
DIRECTIONS to the finish: Take the Parks Highway to the Big Lake Turnoff; take a left at the roundabout and go onto the ice at the South Shore park entrance. The Houston High School booster club will be directing traffic as a fundraiser, and the Big Lake Trails group will be raising money for grooming.