Beargrease Marathon

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Beargrease Marathon, longest sled dog race totally in the lower 48 starts this morning. Finish February 1st. There's also a 40 and 120.
https://beargrease.com/

There's a link for video during the race on the website





Go dogs, go!
Go dogs, go!
Go dogs, go!

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Beargrease Winners:

Marathon: John Ryan https://www.fox21online.com/2022/02...-4th-beargrease-under-tough-trail-conditions/
https://m.startribune.com/wisconsin...ease-as-many-in-the-field-drop-out/600142039/

120: Rita Rehesler https://www.wdio.com/news/beargrease-120-winners-mushers/6375334/ https://www.wdio.com/news/beargrease-120-winners-mushers/6375334/

120 Junior: Morgan Martens, Jr.
He also won the Junior Iditarod last year https://www.wdio.com/sports/morgan-martens-brule-jr-iditarod-redington/6030827/
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2021/03/01/morgan-martens-wins-2021-junior-iditarod/

40: Ashley Thaemert https://www.timberjay.com/stories/local-racers-take-top-spots-in-the-beargrease-40,18633


Several marathon event teams scratched during the race due to warm-weather-induced poor running conditions (snow like running through mashed potatoes) Mushers individually made the decision for the health of their dogs

https://www.wdio.com/sports/beargrease-monday-scratch-schroeder-letzring/6376514/

https://www.wdio.com/news/ryan-redington-scratches-beargrease-marathon/6375899/?cat=10335


Beargrease Timing Sheets (they load v - e - r - y - - - s - l - o - w - l - y
Checkpoint tables are below the timing sheets (scroll horizontally to see all)

Marathon (14 scratches, 10 finished) https://beargrease.com/timing-sheets-beargrease-marathon/

120 (2 scratches, 17 finished) (Juniors mixed in) https://beargrease.com/timing-sheets-beargrease-120/

40 (3 scratches, 13 finished) https://beargrease.com/timing-sheets-beargrease-40/

 

[Tall Timbers]

The Yukon Quest started today. It's a little tougher of a race than the Iditarod, and also not as well known. Some mushers will try to run both races the same year. https://yukonquest.com/

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

The Yukon Quest started today. It's a little tougher of a race than the Iditarod, and also not as well known. Some mushers will try to run both races the same year. https://yukonquest.com/

You guys must have really, really gotten a lot more snow than usual, since they had to go with "Plan B"
https://yukonquest.com/news/alaska-yukon-quest-550-reverts-plan-b

What happened in Circle (other than wuhan virus) that race organizers say "out of respect for the people in Circle?"

 

[Tall Timbers]

You guys must have really, really gotten a lot more snow than usual, since they had to go with "Plan B"
https://yukonquest.com/news/alaska-yukon-quest-550-reverts-plan-b

What happened in Circle (other than wuhan virus) that race organizers say "out of respect for the people in Circle?"

It's a very small indigenous community who weren't prepared for the quest 550 so there was no time to bring in stuff to support a mess of people there... that's probably what it's about. We really haven't gotten more snow than usual but we got 3-4 feet of extremely heavy snow during a period slightly longer than a week. The interior is still digging out of that. Even though it measured 3-4 feet, weight-wise it was around double that in precipitation, and the interior isn't used to getting that much in such a short period of time. I don't think anything else happened to Circle specifically...

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

It's a very small indigenous community who weren't prepared for the quest 550 so there was no time to bring in stuff to support a mess of people there... that's probably what it's about. We really haven't gotten more snow than usual but we got 3-4 feet of extremely heavy snow during a period slightly longer than a week. The interior is still digging out of that. Even though it measured 3-4 feet, weight-wise it was around double that in precipitation, and the interior isn't used to getting that much in such a short period of time. I don't think anything else happened to Circle specifically...

Glad it was just "normal" stuff instead of the ongoing tragedies that are so commonplace these days


JESUS!!!

 

[alisani]

The Yukon Quest started today. It's a little tougher of a race than the Iditarod, and also not as well known. Some mushers will try to run both races the same year. https://yukonquest.com/

Watched Jeff King, lots of good folks racing, but Martin Buser has always been my favorite musher. DeeDee Jonrowe was also fun to watch.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Watched Jeff King, lots of good folks racing, but Martin Buser has always been my favorite musher. DeeDee Jonrowe was also fun to watch.

DeeDee wrote a childs book that came with a CD. The subject was her "lead" cat. All of our kids enjoyed that book. I probably read it to the kids a couple of hundred times while they were growing up.

A local musher, Dan Kaduce, bought a used truck from me. His wife mushes too. Sometimes they enter one of the two big races.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

DeeDee wrote a childs book that came with a CD. The subject was her "lead" cat. All of our kids enjoyed that book. I probably read it to the kids a couple of hundred times while they were growing up.

A local musher, Dan Kaduce, bought a used truck from me. His wife mushes too. Sometimes they enter one of the two big races.

Do you remember the name of the book? The only book I can find by DeeDee Jonrowe is Iditarod Dreams, and the only kid's cat mushing books I found are Danger: The Dog Yard Cat by Libby Riddles and Me-Now, which written by Leon Mensch.

Thanks.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Danger: The Dog Yard Cat by Libby Riddles

This is the book. In the book Danger imagines herself being the lead cat on the dog team.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

This is the book. In the book Danger imagines herself being the lead cat on the dog team.

Akin to Cats rule, Dogs drool

I may see about getting a copy. Siberians are my favorite breed (don't tell my GSD), and I'm probably more of a cat person than a dog person, although I like both

 

[Tall Timbers]

Amazon has it.