02/18/2026
Whew! What a trip! So many adventures and stories to add to the bank. Here’s a recap of the last couple days.
✅ had moose soup in Poorman! Thank you to Roger Brown a the checkers there! Appreciate the hot meal.
Galena has some amazing people that made us dinner and breakfast and let us work on a sled in a nice heated shop. I had another tree get in my way. 🫠
We didn’t leave Galena till 3:30 and pushed to Kaltag. River was very rough most of the way.
The Eskamila clan in Kaltag are AWESOME! We had shipped a box with some supplies to be able to stay at one of the blm cabins that night (dura logs and extra food). The box was personally delivered to us right at the gas pump. We watched our first pro team catch us. Team 14 showed up and took a layover. So we decided now was our opportunity to try and get to our cabin that night.
I got to excited with all this race stuff and hit another tree. I craved out a small branch and grave had some hose clamps and we made a small trail repair.
The snow was very deep leaving Kaltag and we had lots of stucks. Team 7 caught us just before the tripod flats cabin and team 5 caught us there at the cabin. We originally wanted to make old women but decided we better get out of the way. Tripod flats cabin was great! Warm and cozy. We had a great view of the trail and watched a lot of pro teams go by.
Next morning we watched a few more pros got by then we slipped in the middle and pushed to Unakleet.
I’ll do another post soon to recap more!
