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February challenge - week 2 progress
Sorry for the delay in getting this posted. I was distracted by all the snowmobiles going by this weekend. You see, it turns out that the Iron Dog Race started on Sunday, February 16th, and their course is identical to ours for the segment we've just finished and the one we're about to do. In fact, when I was typing this, the leaders are taking their 8-hour layover in Unkaleet - but now, as I'm posting a few hours later, some of them have already headed off. You can track them real-time via GPS at http://www.irondog.org/gps-tracking/
As for our own stats:
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ilanarama - 96/200 miles = 48%
thalia - 3.5/35 miles = 10%
semielliptical - 20.5/45 miles = 46%
silveraspen - 3.5/50 miles = 7%
cadenzamuse - 3.47/15 miles = 23%
ell - 68.5/140 miles = 49%
temve - 71/120 miles = 59%
meri_oddities - 85/100 miles = 85%
calico_jane - 5/35 miles = 14%
linaelyn - 29/50 miles = 58%
blnchflr - 38.7/55 km = 70%
ridicully - 53/75 km = 71%
442.5 miles total.
This week we left Sullivan Creek and passed through Nikolai checkpoint. From there we followed the Kuskokwim River to McGrath, then continued through the Takotna checkpoint, then took an old 1920s mining road to Ophir checkpoint. Ophir is the 'last vestige of civilization for a very long while', according to the Iditarod website.
Since this is an even-numbered year, we are taking the northern route which does not actually go through the town of Iditarod. At Ophir we headed into the wilderness along the Innoko River. We passed the former Cripple checkpoint, named for a steamboat landing, and then angled away from the river, crossing Colorado Creek and then Hunch Creek, ending up in the drainage of the North Fork of the Innoko among big timber and open bottomlands which make good campsites, which is a good thing - by the end of this week we are still about 15 miles short of the new Cripple checkpoint, which is actually at a mining ghost town called Poorman.
Time to head out for Poorman and then head towards the Ruby checkpoint!
As for our own stats:
ilanarama - 96/200 miles = 48%thalia - 3.5/35 miles = 10%semielliptical - 20.5/45 miles = 46%silveraspen - 3.5/50 miles = 7%cadenzamuse - 3.47/15 miles = 23%ell - 68.5/140 miles = 49%temve - 71/120 miles = 59%meri_oddities - 85/100 miles = 85% calico_jane - 5/35 miles = 14%linaelyn - 29/50 miles = 58%blnchflr - 38.7/55 km = 70%ridicully - 53/75 km = 71%442.5 miles total.
This week we left Sullivan Creek and passed through Nikolai checkpoint. From there we followed the Kuskokwim River to McGrath, then continued through the Takotna checkpoint, then took an old 1920s mining road to Ophir checkpoint. Ophir is the 'last vestige of civilization for a very long while', according to the Iditarod website.
Since this is an even-numbered year, we are taking the northern route which does not actually go through the town of Iditarod. At Ophir we headed into the wilderness along the Innoko River. We passed the former Cripple checkpoint, named for a steamboat landing, and then angled away from the river, crossing Colorado Creek and then Hunch Creek, ending up in the drainage of the North Fork of the Innoko among big timber and open bottomlands which make good campsites, which is a good thing - by the end of this week we are still about 15 miles short of the new Cripple checkpoint, which is actually at a mining ghost town called Poorman.
Time to head out for Poorman and then head towards the Ruby checkpoint!