March 22, 2016

Just some final words from the mushers etc:

At the Finishers Banquet JEFF KING and ALIY ZIRKLE thanked the community of NULATO after a snowmachiner from their village struck both mushing dog teams on the trail.
NULATO held a craft fair and raised money to give to JEFF and ALIY. JEFF said "I've got a hunch ALIY and I will come up with a good place to share the money that NULATO raised." He  hoped a lesson can be learned how dangerous and harmful riding these machines when one is intoxicated can be.

KIM FRANKLIN, one of the last mushers to get into NOME had quite a delay, I didn't know about, on the trail. Between ROHN and NIKOLAI she lost her sled and dogs and spent 17 hours looking for them. After such a delay and finding them, she was back on the trail. WOW. Perseverance!

REEF, DALLAS SEAVEY'S dog won the award for the most outstanding lead dog.
DALLAS won $75,000 and a new truck for coming in 1st place. Not too shabby!

NULATO won the Golden Clipboard Award as the most outstanding checkpoint. Amen!