Monthly Archives: February 2011

February 27, 2010 Evening – Sitting Next to the Fireplace Today has been a very welcome, uneventful day. It’s an in-between-trips time: I arrived back home on February 21st and we leave again on March 2nd. Our upcoming trip is a long-anticipated road trip to the southern U.S.  Ed and I plan for this trip [...]

February 26, 2011 Penticton After Dinner On Monday, February 21, 2011, I flew out of Whitehorse on Air North, arriving safely in Vancouver at 20:15. I retrieved my luggage, checked in to Air Canada, and went through security. I walked over to gates 30 to 35, all in one open area, where BC regional flights [...]

February 17, 2011 Whitehorse – 14:00 PST We rolled in to Whitehorse just after 01:00 this morning. My personal adventure continuing right to the end, until Ed opened the door to our apartment in Whitehorse. I had arranged for a taxi before I went to bed at 2 a.m. in Fairbanks but at 7:00 a.m., [...]

February 16, 2011 Tok, Alaska – 13:00 AST. En route to Whitehorse by Alaska Direct Bus Line. Five passengers to from Fairbanks to Tok. One guy got dropped off at a driveway two miles out of town. There are two of us bound for Whitehorse, a Yukon student at University of Fairbanks studying music, and [...]

February 15, 2011 Mile 101 just beyond Eagle Summit, the highest checkpoint in the Yukon Quest sled dog race, sits in a saddle. The 30-mile drive from Central to Mile 101 is spectacular. We came up out of a Circle mining district where Birch Creek meanders and climbed steadily up into the mountain pass. We [...]

Hi everyone, I have been posting the stories or race updates that I’ve written because that is all I have time for. There has been very little sleep for race organizers in the last few days – the weather has played havoc, or as Dan Kaduce said, “It turned the Yukon Quest on it’s ear [...]

February 14, 2011 “One minute you’re running a race and the next, you’re in a survival situation – that’s the Yukon Quest.” Sebastian Schnuelle What started out as one of the smoothest Yukon Quest races in its 28th year history has been turned on its ear for the second time this year. The trail from [...]

What started out as one of the smoothest Yukon Quest races in its 28th year history has been turned on its ear for the second time this year. The trail from Circle to Central is known for tough conditions: overflow and the coldest region on the 1,000-mile route. Hugh Neff lost a lot of his [...]

Hi everyone – just a quick note to let you know that it has been very,very busy for the last 12 hours. I actually took time to sleep last night because I knew it would be this way. I’ve been deployed to the front runners and let me tell you, it is a different pace. [...]

Thursday, 4:47 p.m. Eagle, Alaska Flew over from Dawson City to Eagle in a Cessna 175 with pilot Chad Rowe and Patty an Assistant Vet. The flight was 40 minutes and the sky had high overcast. We flew at about 4000-4500 ft. The sun broke through here and there, lightening up the snow-covered peaks. It [...]