Bart in Pelly Crossing

Pelly Crossing 3.15am

Bart pulled into the checkpoint a good hour ago with shortly behind him the British guy, Peter Fleck. Just now Jen pulled in and Katie is about an hour out of the checkpoint. This stretch between Dawson and Pelly is the longest stretch in the Quest without a checkpoint. It is 200 miles long with the Blackhills and King Salomons dome. Not forgetting some glaciers. So Bart had his adventure. He has been unfortunate to run into day time hours and today the weather was above freezing. It was almost t-shirt weather! I quickly had a look at the dogs before they bedded down and the looked a little tired, just the heat a bit but they are wagging their tails and were in good spirits. He said the dogs been eating good again and Nelson he carried into Dawson is back to normal and pulling hard. During all that time Bart has discovered his 2 magic leader that are his back bone. Scoobie and Alamo are an amazing duo seems like.

Bart said he did not sleep much the last 48 hours so he is ready for a nap!

Seems like he has been performing the good Samaritan over the last several 100 miles. He helped the Swiss guy getting out of Eagle when his leader bulked on him and for the longest time he has Peter Fleck under his wings. Peter is only 19 and his first real racing year and has done his qualifiers but the Quest is an other ball game. He has been thinking about quitting at times so Bart has been dragging him along. They have only 250 miles to go to the finish line. I bet that is also a bit why he is hanging back more.

The trail from hear is fairly flat now. His next run will be 75 miles bringing him into Carmacks. Weather depending he may pull over for a while to stay out of the heat.

So long,

Stefaan

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