Last leg of the Wyoming Stage Race

 We made it to the end!!!!!  Here's hoping they come in the way they went out- full of excitement!!!!!  It's a 30 mile trail today and 8 miles going up, then rolling for 7 to a height of 2000 feet and then back down!!  8 dogs again today - we have to remind ourselves how well we really are doing with only a pool of 11 dogs and needing to rest some of them every day!!!!  Cause most every other team is 10 dogs! And the run up to the start line is the shortest of all the legs - only about 25 yards!!!  I made it all the way to the start line ahead of the team...........well almost.....part of the way the leaders were dragging me!!

The drive from Driggs, ID wasn't too bad- the road coming into Alpine through the pass was clear so we were happy they had done a nice job cleaning the snow off - we were worried it might be bad -  but then we got on the pass from Alpine to Jackson and it did get bad.............all the way here - it was really slippery when we were going through a round-about!!!!  Some people said they bounced off from the snow banks going through!!!!!!!!

Tonight there is an awards banquet in Jackson so we are looking forward to that!!!

Well team DeKuiper did it!!!!!!  19th today and 18th overall!!!!!!!!!!!  Yay!!!!!!!  You can see the video of Randy finishing if you look at the facebook page "Pedigree Stage Stop Race"  He is at 10 minutes and 40 seconds into the video of the Teton county video (thank you Amy....)

I can't say I am going to miss getting up at 6am in order to be ready for a 9am race start for 7 days!!!!!

We drove back to Jackson from the race site in the most horrible weather we have experienced the whole trip!!!! total white out - couldn't see 50 feet ahead of us frequently - Randy said it was more stressful than the race!!!! but now we are safely back at the rodeo grounds in Jackson - Bruce and Laura are going to unhook from their trailer so they are driving us to the banquet because there is no parking for our rig there.

Tomorrow we shall see what the weather around the nation is and make a decision about which route to take to Wisconsin for our next race in Iron River 2 weeks from today - hopefully the weather will have vastly improved!!!