I know what you’re going to say. You’re going to say “It’s Spring, for God’s sake, what are you doing writing mushing bulletins. Why aren’t you out at the practice range hitting golf balls?” There are a couple of answers to this question. First of all, we […]
Read more →Saturday was the ceremonial start of the Iditarod in Anchorage, Alaska. Sunday the real start occurs in Willow, a few miles outside Anchorage. The mushers will run from Willow to Nome, a distance of 1,100 miles or so. When the race starts in Willow, a lantern is […]
Read more →A couple of years ago, Gino discovered that a nearby mountain didn’t have anything on top of it. Coincidentally, he had a cabin that he wasn’t using. That’s how the Outpost came to be. We’ll skip the intervening moments involving a flatbed truck, large cranes of the […]
Read more →As we prepared to head for Canada several weeks ago, we had a communications plan in mind. First, we switched from AT&T to Verizon because Verizon has better service in Canada. Then the Head Musher contacted Verizon and signed up for the “Canada Plan”. In theory, this […]
Read more →This bulletin is like one of those TV shows that flashes a message on the screen that reads “Earlier in the Week”. If you miss the message you are confused for the next 30 minutes. We are flashing back to last Saturday night. Saturday was the day […]
Read more →In the last bulletin I warned you that I would make it to breakfast at the motel restaurant, blizzard or no blizzard, for one of their western omelets. There’s nothing like having a goal first thing in the morning, especially if it relates to food. Is there […]
Read more →So, when we last met, the Head Musher and I had just pulled up to the Emergency Room door at Montmagny Hospital. But before continuing that story, I should tell you what transpired today. The Rules Committee of the Odyssee Appalacienne decided to let the Head Musher […]
Read more →How do you know whether a person has passed out or is simply sleeping? I say wake them up and ask them. More on this technique later. This bulletin, like Gaul, is divided into three parts but I don’t know whether I’ll be able to complete all […]
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Remember a couple of bulletins ago I told you that I had to reconstruct my Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion chart down to 20 below? Well, it appears that once again I was a bit overly optimistic. At six thirty this morning it was minus 31 degrees Celsius […]
Read more →It’s Wednesday of race week. All the long training runs are behind us. In fact, all training runs are behind us. There was some talk of getting a last, short 5-mile run in today but cooler heads prevailed as the temperature went up to about 35 degrees […]
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