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sean salach: 09 Alaska Ultrasport Nikolai to The Outer Limits

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Dispatch war rocket ajax to bring back his body. Déardaoin 24 Nollaig 2009. 09 Alaska Ultrasport Nikolai to The Outer Limits. Continued from: http:/ seansalach.blogspot.com/2009/12/09-alaska-ultrasport-bison-to-nikolai.html. For a while, I could see the tracks from Curiak and the walkers who had left Nikolai very early that morning. I thought that perhaps I had a fighting chance of catching one or two of the walkers, as the trail was marginally rideable. 8221;, “Go on through! One more swamp passed benea...

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sean salach: 2010 Alaska Ultrasport Day 1 Knik Bar to Shell Lake

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Dispatch war rocket ajax to bring back his body. Dé Luain 8 Márta 2010. 2010 Alaska Ultrasport Day 1 Knik Bar to Shell Lake. Knik Bar to Shell Lake. Hooked me up with a demo black aluminum Fatback for the race. I set it up SS using a tensioner, and it took no more than one ride for me to realize how foolish it is to ride anything less than Endomorphs for this race anymore. They simply roll faster on snow than anything else. Thanks, Greg! Here's a short video clip shot by Craig Medred of AKDispatch. Every...

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sean salach: 2010 Alaska Ultrasport Day 4, Pass Lake to Bison Camp

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Dispatch war rocket ajax to bring back his body. Dé Luain 15 Márta 2010. 2010 Alaska Ultrasport Day 4, Pass Lake to Bison Camp. 2010 Iditarod Trail Invitational. Pass Lake to Bison Camp. We stopped to watch some small avalanches on the peak we were facing. There was an impressively loud “BOOM” and then we would scan the slopes to see the shifting, dirty snow. I wondered how loud of a BOOM a really big avalanche would make. Something to the effect of, “WAKE UP! I NEED ROOM FOR INCOMING RACERS! I finally c...

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sean salach: Alaska Ultrasport 2009 Rainy Pass retreat.

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Dispatch war rocket ajax to bring back his body. Dé Luain 21 Nollaig 2009. Alaska Ultrasport 2009 Rainy Pass retreat. Continued from my day 2-3 report. Http:/ seansalach.blogspot.com/2009/12/alaska-ultrasport-2009-days-2-3.html. Catherine had arrived I think before Alberto, and was in no rush to leave, with her breathing problems beginning to increase. She was doing a good job of keeping her composure though. They were followed by a steady stream of walkers and a few cyclists. It was either mashed potato...

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sean salach: 09 Alaska Ultrasport Soggy Foot Slough to the END

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Dispatch war rocket ajax to bring back his body. Dé hAoine 25 Nollaig 2009. 09 Alaska Ultrasport Soggy Foot Slough to the END. Continued from: http:/ seansalach.blogspot.com/2009/12/09-alaska-ultrasport-nikolai-to-outer.html. He took off slowly to avoid chewing up the trail too much. And away I rode. On one section of river, I had stopped for a Skittle and Tang break, which was probably more of a faff break, as I don’t actually recall being hungry. As I stood there, I was suddenly given the mot...The tem...

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sean salach: 09 Alaska Ultrasport Rainy Pass Attack #2

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Dispatch war rocket ajax to bring back his body. Dé Máirt 22 Nollaig 2009. 09 Alaska Ultrasport Rainy Pass Attack #2. Previous chapter: http:/ seansalach.blogspot.com/2009/12/alaska-ultrasport-day-off.html. Faffing isn’t as dirty of a word as it sounds, though I suppose it could be used to describe something dirty…. 8221; with a big grin on his face. The meaning was obvious, though it was my first introduction to a word that I would hear repeatedly for the next 24 hours. 8221; I obliviously responded.

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sean salach: 09 Alaska Ultrasport Rohn to first bivy.

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Dispatch war rocket ajax to bring back his body. Dé Céadaoin 23 Nollaig 2009. 09 Alaska Ultrasport Rohn to first bivy. Continued from: http:/ seansalach.blogspot.com/2009/12/09-alaska-ultrasport-rohn.html. Riding out of Rohn I was a man on a mission, I had ground to cover and I wanted to cover it fast. I decided that I needed to be in Nikolai by the following afternoon at the latest, ideally the following morning. The only blurry photo of the trip, but it get's the point across:. It wasn’t even dar...

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sean salach: 2010 Alaska Ultrasport Day 3, FinnBear Lake to Pass Lake

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Dispatch war rocket ajax to bring back his body. Dé Sathairn 13 Márta 2010. 2010 Alaska Ultrasport Day 3, FinnBear Lake to Pass Lake. 2010 Iditarod Trail Invitational. FinnBear Lake to Pass Lake. 8221; Craig again expressed his regret, relaying that it was the only machine(rental I guess) he could get a hold of, and that he himself doesn’t like people on his local trails with paddle tracks. At one point Craig dropped down into the next sump, waaay off the trail. The snow through here was waist deep i...

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sean salach: luain lasrach, toin lasrach....

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Dispatch war rocket ajax to bring back his body. Dé Domhnaigh 1 Samhain 2009. Luain lasrach, toin lasrach. I set my alarm for 5am in order to get myself and the Karate monkey shod and ready for the ride, after spending most of Friday breaking a sewing machine. Got up at 4:59, before the alarm, and was then woken at 8:11 by a phone call from Mark, of Wildfire cycles. It was refreshing to see a variety of fat tire tread patterns in the snow. Looks like a sweet ride! Wish I had a reason to need a fatbike!

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sean salach: Slow ride.... Alaska Ultrasport 2009 day 1

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Dispatch war rocket ajax to bring back his body. Dé hAoine 18 Nollaig 2009. Slow ride. Alaska Ultrasport 2009 day 1. During the first two weeks of March, 2009, I participated in Alaska Ultrasport's Iditarod Trail Invitational. As I stood there, in the second-ish row back at the starting line, it really hit me. It really wasn’t untill that point that I bothered to ask myself, “What the hell am I doing here? What business do I have toeing this line, unprepared and seriously undertrained? We were off the la...