We went to our first race last weekend. The race was the Sheep Mountain 150. There were three legs of 50 miles. After the first 50 miles there was a 5-hour mandatory rest where the mushers could sleep and the dogs got feed and rested. Then there was another 50-mile section, followed by another 5-hour rest. The last 50 miles finished off the race. It was really fun to see how the races are run, and meet lots of different mushers. There were a lot of really cute dogs!
One evening Megan and I were playing cribbage and Jeff King came and sat down to talk with us. Jeff King is a pretty famous musher (he has won first place in 4 Iditarod races), and he was racing in Sheep Mountain. Basically the conversation consisted of him making fun of me because I was having some trouble with the simple addition required in cribbage. Pretty funny. Other than that, the race was quite uneventful…..a good thing. At one point I had to back up his huge trailer (see pictures) and I was very happy to back it up without much trouble. Driving his diesel manual truck with that trailer is a little nerve-racking.
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