Sled Dog Central 2011: Farwell's Far from Nome Sled Dog Event

Conditions:
Sat temps in the mid 30's.
Sun temps in the mid 30's, w/ 5" of fresh snow.

Both sleeping bag races were mass start. Each Participant had to zip themselves in their sleeping bag. The adult class drivers were given a paper that had 2 items every musher should have access to. They needed to take these 2 items AND their sleeping bag with them in their dog bag. Only one handler was allowed per driver, and they had to harness the dogs once told to "GO". Each 3-dog team had to get on the trail as fast as possible, and from there it was up to the dog team.

Special race was open to any kid who could handle a sled....regardless of age (our juniors are supposed to be 10-15 years old).

Relay Race:
Each team consisted of two 3-dog teams, and one team with up to 5 dogs. Only the 3 drivers from each team were allowed to handle their perspective teams dogs. It too, was a mass start. At the mandatory drivers meeting the drivers were told about the rules and unknowingly told to GO!! It was great! 33 drivers scrambling to get out of this basement of the Lodge where the mtg. was held. Everyone sprinted out to the dog yard to harness the first team. The 1st team ran the 3-dog trail as normal, the 2nd ran it backwards, and the 3rd ran it normal again. Their bib was the baton to be transferred from driver to driver. It was chaos, and SO MUCH FUN!! As you can tell from the video it was a close finish. The winner came across the finish line being held by his own daughter, with 3rd place right behind them. There wasn't one person not smiling.....even the last place team had a grin from all the fun.

Saturday Relay Race (4 miles each) (12 miles total)
Place	Team Name	Drivers	Drivers	Drivers
1	Northern Lights Nightmares	Brad Love	Stu Stirrett	Mike Fortino
2	team AWESOME!	Tatom Love	Sarah Pratt	Jarred Pratt
3	Lightning Leathermans	Alden Leatherman	Marietta Leatherman	Abby Leatherman
4	2 Hotties & a Nottie	Curt Tucker	Mandy Palmer	Gina Fortino
5	Misfits	Bob Packard	Melanie Packard	Jill Miller
6	Sepala Streaks	Ted Nelson	Ann Nelson	Martha Conway
7	Catch us if you can	Anissa Eagling	Natalie Minzey	Amber Eagling
8	Mad Michigan Mushers	Jeremy Specht	Dave Friend	Ken Frizzle
9	team Aspen	Jon Franklin	Donnetta Franklin	Ashley Chandler
10	Snow Bunnies	Density Kiel	Kari Jepsen	JoAnn Jepsen
11	3-Sibes	Ed Roth	Larry Krot	Troy Edick
Place	Name	Day 1	Day 2	Total Time
5 Dog (12 miles)
1	Stu Stirrett	38:56.00	50:58.16	1:29:54.16
2	Doug Jones	1:02:10.00	1:15:22.56	2:17:32.56
3	Larry Krot	1:25:18.00	1:45:45.45	3:11:03.45
7 Dog (17 miles)
1	Al Fritzler	1:19:35.00	1:31:18.88	2:50:53.88
2	Gary Loebrich	1:28:32.00	1:51:20.09	3:19:52.09
1 Dog (100 yard dash)
1	Lydia Minzey	:14.49	:14.97	:29.46
2	Alex Fritzler	:14.97	:37.32	:52.29
3	Sydney Specht	:15.77	:20.02	:35.79
4	Levi	:16.69	:24.00	:40.69
5	Emma	:20.88	DNR
6	Trent Edick	:24.81	:35.07	:59.88
7	Tristen Edick	:41.45	:17.25	:58.70

Place	Name
Mass Start, Adult Sleeping Bag start (4 miles)
1	Abby Leatherman
2	Amber Eagling
3	Jill Miller
4	Ken Frizzle
5	Don Minzey
6	Ann Nelson
7	Ted Nelson
8	Jeremy Specht
9	Kari Jepsen
10	Donnetta Franklin

Junior (2.1 miles)
	Sat. Sleeping Bag start	Sun. Special Race
1	Anissa Eagling	Anissa Eagling
2	Ellen Person	Natalie Minzey
3	Natalie Minzey	Alex Fritzler
4	Eric Person	Sydney Specht
5		Lydia Minzey