Up to the ididaride place and was checked in and ready to do the 1.5 hour ride and demo. They went over the timeline for a race team, supplies, and dogs. These champion teams travel 160 miles per day and complete the whole race in about 8plus days. After this moved into the yard and there were dogs everywhere all just looking at you like pick me, pick me to run. These dogs are breed to just want to run and are lean looking but that is proper apparently. They hook 16 dogs to this golf cart thing that holds 8 and I stood on the back with the musher. So they were going to pull 10 adults two miles was just crazy. Once we were loaded and dogs hooked up they pulled a pin holding us back and we shot out. Now the dogs had to be stopped about 4 times as they would overheat as this was about 50 degrees and way to warm for them. But once stopped they were ready to go the hole time waiting for the brakes to be released. Was neat once finished saw some 2 week old pups and a typical race gear for dog and driver.
After this we went up to exit glacier which is a land glacier that you can hike up to the face about 1 mile in on easy hike. Did this was neat to see the receding but this seems to be a normal thing and has had some slow times during our revolution. So global warming maybe? But maybe not too as could be normal.
Drove back to anchorage and got the rv turned in and camping out in the parking lot for a early train ride back to Seward and cruise departure the following day.
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