First day of the Limited North American sled dog race in Fairbanks, AK!!

Arrived at 10:30 am per the "boss" - as we were greeting and meeting in the clubhouse

 I volunteered for being one of the people to video the dog teams in the chute before they leave to race to ensure that they don't insert or replace a dog for the second or 3rd day!  So I followed Elizabeth (who is very interesting and lives in Fairbanks and is getting her masters in wildlife management and is studying the goose population on the Bering sea that nests in colonies versus randomly - so that they protect themselves from predators (fox) as a community) doing the job I will do tomorrow and Sunday!   not too difficult today but tomorrow I will be "on call" for the start of each of the classes to video each team -- thus the picture of me in the volunteer hat!  Randy was also volunteering to generally help out in the chute and did some sled holding in the 6 and 8 classes!

Tonite dinner at a diner with Cheziks to celebrate Kenny's birthday and tomorrow and Sunday racing and Mass on Saturday- I will try to keep up and take pictures!

teams coming in to the finish line

Jeff Conn talking at the draw meeting

Randy enjoying our airplane pillow

you have to blow it up to see but it says "elder parking' in front of the clubhouse to honor the indigenous people respect

me in my volunteer hat!!!