Inbound to Nikolai


Believe it or not, this reporter actually lived in Nikolai. When I was if first grade, my parents were the teacher and principal there. A pilot now, I took my first small airplane ride from McGrath to Nikolai in 1969. My how it has changed!!

Pete is about a mile from this village on the upper Kuskokwim River. Temperatures are a bit below zero with wind chills to about -20 in some parts of the trail. He will have some protection from the slight wind from the trees.

Once Pete reaches Nikolai, he will have reach mile marker 347 with 765 miles to go. He isn’t as far down the trail as it seems with the Anchorage miles built in, but he will have covered 284 miles since the Willow restart. Basically one Kuskokwim 300 race under his belt. One other notable tidbit of trivia, the Rohn to Nikolai stretch is the 3rd longest in the race between checkpoints at 75 miles.

Here is where the sleep and exhaustion take hold as he begins to decide where to take the 24 hour layover.

Doin’ GREAT so far!!!


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