Schnuelle, Get your Scissors Ready!

Mackey is into White Mountain and into his mandatory 8 hour layover. He is about 2 1/2 hours in front of the second place musher and Yukon Quest winner Hans Gatt, from Whitehorse. The roles are reversed as Gatt is following Mackey into Nome. Mackey followed Gatt across the Yukon Quest finish line.

Sebastian Schnuelle and Mackey had a “hair” bet with the loser also losing his hair. Say bye bye to your hair Sebastian! And that is some Hair!

Sebastian Schnuelle

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Unalakleet to Shaktoolik Trail

The team is on the coast now and things are going to be FAR different! The winds will blow, but what a sunset they will see tonight!!

From the Iditarod Description-

The actual distance on this leg is usually about 37 or 38 miles. The race follows the main snowmachine trail to Shaktoolik; it is normally well traveled and well marked. The first 25 miles cross a mix of woods, taiga, open areas, and exposed ridge tops; the last 12 miles are completely in the open on the barren coastline. This leg usually takes four to six hours, but can be much longer if the weather is bad. The trail leaves Unalakleet northbound and runs just in from the beach, turning inland after five miles to pass behind rocky 850-foot-high Blueberry Point. It comes almost back to the shore at the fishing camp of Egavik before climbing up the Blueberry Hills, reaching the thousand-foot summit at the 18-mile point. At the top the trail turns west and makes a three-mile drop back to the beach, then follows a slough and the dune line northwestward for the last 12 miles out to Shaktoolik.

Weather-
Koyuk, Alaska (Airport)
Updated: 8:16 PM AKDT on March 15, 2010
Clear     3 °F
Windchill:     -15 °F
Humidity:     36%
Dew Point:     -18 °F
Wind:     14 mph from the North
Wind Gust:     21 mph
Pressure:     30.18 in (Rising)
Visibility:     10.0 miles

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Northbound for Shaktoolik

Team Kaiser is on the move Northbound. It appears that they must have left about an hour ago as they are about 8 miles north of Unalakleet. He is still traveling with Lesatz. 219 miles to the Finish!

Shaktoolik is 42 miles up the trail. Trail images coming.

Calling all Team Kaiser Members!! Do you have someone that could take photos in this section of the trail?? Have them send the photos to photos@kaiserracing.com! thanks

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Pete’s Official Unalakleet IN Time

I was right. Pete and fellow Musher Thomas Lesatz were traveling together.  Pete arrived in Unalakleet 10 minutes before Lesatz at 13:47 with 11 Dogs. I would guess that he will rest here and then continue to Shaktoolik.

Paul Ivanoff is going to try to get some photos for us from the Unalakleet checkpoint.

In other news, Lance Mackey is In and Out of Elim! Going for a record?

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Possibly on the Move

Pete was out of Kaltag right before Musher Lesatz. Pete’s GPS was problematic last evening, so I don’t trust it.

Lesatz is on the move and I have a feeling so is Pete. I am just speculating, but I have a feeling he is about 10-15 miles from Unalakleet.

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