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Another young but well sponsored team. Strick and Moore. These guys have been together for a while now. Maybe this year they will catch a break and have some good luck. Menne and Thibault are very well prepared. Sleds looked beautiful. Conner and Crouse. Another very well prepared Cat team. This is one of the teams I helped this year. Folsom and Conlan. These are the best looking sleds on the property. I helped these guys out with shock work this year. They have about 3000 practice miles. They are running the bad ass Ohlin TTX shocks all the way around. Practice shocks are pictured here. Schwochert and Potter. I helped these guys with shock work this year. They are a low budget team. I'm just hoping they finish.

VanMeter and Gueco. Another RS converted etec. Barber and Spain. These XCR's are pretty bad ass. Team 14 are Rookies. Boylan and Leslie. They are very well prepared. Lots of trick billet parts on these two sleds. Got the Maine boys back again this year. Father and son team of Tim and Remington Lessard. I talked to them a few times over the last week. They got up here a few weeks ago to begin practicing and final sled set-up. They look very prepared. Watson and Zwink. These guys will be fast. Cory Davis and Ryan Simon. I talked to Ryan for a while. He said he has about 400 practice miles on this year. A young family and business has kept him pretty busy. His 400 miles is 400 more than Cory has, Haha. When you are as good as these two you don't really need that much practice.

They have to make it to each check point to refuel and get credit for the check point. With very few exceptions, they do not have to take the same path between checkpoints. That said, there is really only one path between Big Lake and Nome and one path between Nome and Fairbanks. You make be able to stray 1/4 to 1/2 mile off path if you think you have a faster line but there is really only one way to get from the starting line to the finish line.

On Wednesday the Iron Dog Expo was held at Cabelas in Anchorage. All the teams gathered there to go through their pre race Safety Inspection. There were some really good looking and well prepared teams this year. Team 8, Aklestad and Johnson. Last years Champions. Lots of nice Cat teams this year. Team 10, Morgan and Olds. These guys already drove to Nome once during practice about 2 weeks ago. They are very well prepared again this year. Team 6, Brad George and Robbie Schachle. They have about 4000 practice miles this year. These are XRS etecs with the RS S-module and front suspension. A few teams converted to the RS front end this year.

Well it's that time of year again. Racers are geared up and ready to head through the Alaskan wilderness on their trek to Nome and then back to Fairbanks. We have quite a bit of new snow in South central AK so cooling and lubrication won't be a problem but a rough wooped out trail may be. As most of you know this race starts in Big Lake (just west of Wasilla) and goes for about 1100 miles to Nome Alaska where the teams have a mid race layover of 24-36 hours. From Nome they race about 900 miles back to Fairbanks. Teams are made up of 2 racers on virtually identical sleds. Many teams will have a pilot and plane with some of the more critical parts on board. No outside assistance of any kind can be rendered unless it's considered an emergency. An emergency would be like if one rider broke through the ice and submerged his sled. They could organize locals to help them retrieve the sled and get it out of the water. Once it's out of the water the team is back on their own to get it dried out and back running. There are 35 Pro Class Teams this year. Teams have to take 28hrs of layovers on the run from Big Lake to Nome and 20hrs of layovers from Nome to Fairbanks. When and where teams take these layovers is part of their strategy. Often times that strategy is changed if they have a mishap on the trail. Every team hopes to make it to McGrath by the end of the first day. McGrath is 365 miles from the starting line over some of the worst terrain on the whole trail. As of a week ago there was lots of snow across the Farewell Burn but very little snow in the Alaska Range from Puntilla to Rohn. Here are some of the links to important Iron Dog information. http://www.irondog.org/ Iron Dog on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/snowmobilerace/ Pro Class Teams http://www.irondog.org/race-tracking/pro-class-2017/?view=teams Race Tracking using their GPS Transponders http://www.irondog.org/gps-tracking/

Clueless is now way to go through life.

You still don't get it do you Greg?

Looks like some fast trails right there. You were overheating in those conditions posted above? You have scratchers? Seems like enough snow to keep the sled cool.

Just as funny this time as it was the first. hahahahahaha

Most definitely. With you at the top of the heap.

Hahahaha. What a bunch of whining cunts. No wonder noggin worships them like he does. They are everything he yearns to be but never will

All that and he's still winning every step of the way. Trump is like the Patriots. Both are Winners.

Add that to the long list of shit Catrman is clueless about.

Neither is noggin.

Noggin is a prime example of this.

For sure on the fit and finish. And as mentioned, Doo has the best accessories and apparel. Doo has by far the best utility line up. No one else is even close.

SkiDoo is without question the leader in snowmobile technology. Polaris seems to do things their own way but it isn't necessarily better than Skidoo. Cats are still put together with sheet metal screws. That pretty much says it all.

January is a good month to start digging in the Dakotas as most of the protesters aren't going to brave the cold. With the lack of protesters the media will ignore the progress. Trump wins again.

Your desperation has gone from comical to pathetic.

More winning. Bravo.

I watched MSNBC for a while this morning. Trump did a lot of winning yesterday. Labor unions on his side. Auto industry on his side. Keystone and Dakota pipelines back in business. How can one guy be such a winner. I can see why Tom Brady likes Trump so much. Peas in a pod.

LOL for sure.

Sounds like just a red blooded American to me.

Found a little snow Saturday.