Good Afternoon Race Fans!
After a 5 hour break, Pete is back on the runners as the Team heads Southwest 47 miles towards Kaltag leaving at 4pm on the dot with 11 dogs. He was followed out of the checkpoint by Jason Mackey who didn’t take a break in the checkpoint and continued on the trail in the afternoon sunshine. Lead musher Travis Beals was into the Kaltag checkpoint at 3pm leaving 17 minutes later having dropped two dogs. That leaves the leader with 10 dogs in harness.
Weather couldn’t be more perfect, with sunny skies, a very light breeze and 1 degree above zero. Forecasted frigid temperatures are still on mushers minds, but the expected low tonight is -16– a far cry from the -29 that was expected.
Pete and the Team are running in 7th position at this point with some really nice Teams in front at the moment. Travis’ time to Kaltag was 4hrs 22min, so we can expect Team Kaiser into Kaltag between 8:30 and 9pm this evening,
Even with this longer break in Nulato, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him take another break in Kaltag before heading over the portage to camp just before Unalakleet making Shaktoolik the next checkpoint for a rest.
Remember tonight is Time Change Saturday (Finally) so we will be getting our evening sunshine back!! Hooray!!
Go Team Kaiser!!
