Sunday March 16, 2014

OK EVERYONE IS IN!!! Can't believe everyone made it back right in time for the banquet today.
Now I'll go back a bit:

A rookie, Elliot Anderson had been in last position for quite awhile but in Golovin he had to scratch.
So now we were down to the last two.
Third from the last place was Monica Zappa, the musher I spoke about who was teamed up with the Teacher on the Trail. I mention her only because I think the Teacher on the Trail is interesting to a lot of people and Monica played a wonderful part of the kids experience.

 Monica Zappa in the chute coming into NOME. She said the Farewell Burn was a "living nitemare" and she said "no one told me the Topkok Hills are mountains."

Marcelle Norris leads her team on the Bering Sea and Marcelle Fressineau is just behind her.

Marcelle Fressineau at the trail marker near Nome.

Newton Marshall's dog. How majestic!!

 HERE THEY ARE!!! A portion of the 2014 musher finishers in Nome under the arch!! GREAT JOB

THIS IS WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SEEN ON THE TRAIL--SNOW--BUT NO THAT WAS ON THE EAST COAST!!!DRATS


Second to last into Nome was Lisbet Norris and Red Lantern (last place) was Marcelle Fressineau.
Marcelle is a Swiss born Canadian. Even to the very end people came out to cheer for each and every musher.
I still think its ironic that the most attention paid to a racer from the media to trophies etc are first AND last place. The Red Lantern racer gets their name engraved on the Red Lantern along with a big write up in the paper. About the same attention the first place racer gets. Well, first place maybe a bit more plus money plus a truck plus plus. Anyway......  THEY ARE ALL WINNERS!!