Mackey was the first one into Ruby, and this afternoon he was the first one out of Ruby. Mackey, coming off of pushing very hard over two long streches of the trail took his manditory 8-hour layover at the first available checkpoint out of the four that are along the Yukon River. Mackey led [...]
Archive for March 7th, 2008
Mackey Reaches the Yukon River first
Posted by admin on March 7th, 2008Just about an hour ago (at 7:32am Alaska time) Lance Mackey completed a long 112 mile trek from Cripple to make him the first musher to reach the Yukon, and the village of Ruby. As I reported last night the first musher to this checkpoint (and Anvik on the southern route) wins $5000 and [...]
Big Day for DeeDee & Details on the Ruby Award
Posted by admin on March 7th, 2008Much has changed since this morning when I last posted, I kept trying to get to a computer to file another report, but things have been pretty crazy today for me as well…
This morning we reached the halfway point of the race, DeeDee Jonrowe was the first musher to reach Cripple, this years halfway point. [...]