ID: Black Team Out of Shak

It seems there was some major weather happening outside of Shaktoolik today with huge snow drifts and strong winds. At one stage there were about 25 teams stacked up at the checkpoint waiting for it to be safe to continue on. If you see the tracker you'll notice most of the teams are in groups; this will be for safety and to share the trail breaking duties.

Allen left Shak with all 14 Black Team mates at 8.01pm and is currently about 30-35 miles from Koyuk. They spent over 16 hours at the checkpoint. We did pack plenty of dog food in the drop bags so they would have been just fine for that amount of time.

We will be anxiously watching the tracker tonight until they all get safely into the next checkpoint.

Drop Dog Update


All our dropped dogs: Outlaw, Nelson, Driver and Sissy are out at our good friend Margie's kennel in Knik. Here's some pics from earlier today.


Outlaw and Molly at Barbara's (remember Molly from Beemer's big day out?); Driver and Outlaw on their way to Margie's


Driver enjoying Margie's home; Sissy and Nelson with Margie