(PUNTILLA LAKE, Feb. 19, 7:30 p.m.) – When Team 14 Casey Boylan and Bryan Leslie, were prepping to leave McGrath Friday morning, they agreed: No rash moves.
“Really we are just trying to stay steady and do what we know how to do,” said Boylan from McGrath, before the two headed out. “We haven’t been riding too hard, and we agreed that whatever pace we ride is the place we are going to get.”
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(McGRATH, Alaska, 9 p.m.) – The blistering pace that has been set since the beginning of Iron Dog 38 started to show some cracks today — on racers, and their machines.
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(GALENA, Alaska, Feb. 18, 4 p.m.) – A collision on the trail rattled two of the top three teams today, but by 3 p.m. everyone was settled into Galena, eating food and cracking jokes.
As Doug Dixon, Iron Dog board of directors vice president said, this is just part of racing.
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(KOTZEBUE, Alaska, 4:15 p.m.) – It was another exciting day of racing on Wednesday as teams 5 and 6 duked it out on Kobuk Lake to see who would arrive in Kotzebue first. Local volunteer and radio announcer Paulette Scheurch gave the blow-by-blow to excited KOTZ radio listeners as at 3:07:56 p.m. Team 6 pulled into the checkpoint. Team 6 Brad George and Robby Schachle got there with the narrowest of leads. Team 5, Brett Lapham and Zack Weisz clocked in at 3:08:54, just 58 seconds behind their competitors.
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(NOME, Alaska, REVISED 5 a.m. Feb 17 to reflect updated start order Feb. 16, 8 p.m.) – Eighteen Iron Dog teams spent the day in Nome on Tuesday, prepping their sleds for the roughly 1,600 miles separating them from the finish line.
After all the wrenching was done, and the on-the-clock garage times added to each team’s course totals, Team 5, Brett Lapham and Zack Weisz skipped ahead of Team 6, Brad George and Robby Schachle. Still, the two teams are running neck and neck, with just 6 minutes and 30 seconds separating them. Team 10, Chris Olds and Mike Morgan, with six wins between them, remain in third. All are Iron Dog veterans and some of the top racers in the field.
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(NOME, Alaska, Feb. 16, 12 p.m.) – Team 6, Robby Schachle and Brad George, arrived into Nome on Monday with a razor-thin lead in Iron Dog 38. Less than 10 minutes separate them from the next two teams.
The pair knows first hand, though, how quickly things can change in the World’s Longest, Toughest Snowmobile Race.
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NOME, AK (Feb. 15, 2021, 6:30 p.m.) – In 1925, a diptheria outbreak in Nome nearly turned into an epidemic, but a gutsy relay of dog teams traveling across the state with an antitoxin rescued the village just in time.
Flash forward nearly a century later: A worldwide pandemic is on the loose, and Alaskans are not immune. Yet still, gutsy performances continue – this time by the 18 remaining Iron Dog Pro Class teams that began arriving in Nome this afternoon.
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