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The World's Longest Human Powered Winter Race
350 miles or 1100 miles
This is a No Frills, Limited Support Race put on by Racers for Racers.
Start: Sunday,
February 24th, 2008 at 2:00PM
Knik Lake

Leader
board 2008
2008 RACE ROSTER
50 Racer Limit!
We have had some cancellations, we have 4 spots left
YELLOW = 350 MILES ORANGE = 1100 MILES
Links:
www.iditarod.it
Iditarod Trail Mileage & Route Description
www.athinwhiteline.com
GPS coordinates
Cabela's Iditarod - The Trail - Southern Distances
NOME info
Race Route Description
Race History
RacePhilosophy
Deutsche
Trail Beschreibung
350 mile route
Read Racer's Blogs
Mike Curiak
Pete Basinger
Jill Homer
Geoff Roes
The
$700.00 entry fee for the 350 mile race will provide:
* Transportation from Golden Lion Best Western 1000 East 36th to race start at Knik Lake
*
Lodging and food at Winter Lake Lodge on Finger Lake
(on the southern edge of the Alaska Range)
* Lodging and food at Puntilla Lake (middle of the Alaska Range)
* A tent camp and food in Rohn
(on the northern edge of the Alaska Range)
* Lodging and Food at the Buffalo Camp in the Farewell Burn
* Lodging and food in Nikolai and McGrath
* A food drop of 10 pounds each in Finger Lake and Rohn Please keep
your drops small, we bring those to their location via small ski plane.
(
All survival gear, sleeping bags, clothing ect. must be carried from the
start)
* T-Shirt + Poster
For racers that have to cancel their participation we offer a rain check for the following year.
We
will have two snowmachines ahead of the lead pack.
Nome
Racers:
For racers going to Nome the
$ 750.00
entry fee will include a food drop
(
10 pounds)
in
Iditarod
( southern Route /odd years) or in
Cripple
(northern Route/even years).
Besides that drop all
racers going on to Nome will be responsible for their own drop bags, lodging,
food and contacts beyond McGrath. We will provide Post Office addresses
and phone numbers to local residents who are willing to support our racers.
In past years racers have been staying in village schools for a small fee
and sending boxes to villages post offices "General Delivery"+ racer's
name +" hold for Alaska Ultra Sport Racer" for drops along the route.
Please contact us for more detailed information on the 1100 mile race to
Nome.
Flights
& Evacuations:
Flights from McGrath, Nome or evacuations from the course are at racer's
expense.
Flights back to Anchorage from McGrath with Pen Air and with Alaska Air from Nome have been around $200.00.
Required
Checkpoints:
CP1: Yentna Station ( mile 57)
CP2:
Skwentna Roadhouse ( mile 90)
CP3:
Winter Lake Lodge on Fingerlake ( mile 130)
CP4:
Rainy Pass Lodge on Puntilla Lake ( mile 165)
CP5:
Rohn Cabin ( mile 210)
CP6:
Bison Camp ( mile 255)
CP7:
Nikolai ( mile 300)
CP8:
McGrath ( mile 350)
Supply
Drops:
(please
use bags not boxes)
Drops are for
expendables! ( food, batteries, fuel etc.)
Everything else is to be carried from the start by the racer.
Finger Lake - 10 lbs/4.5 kg
Rohn - 10 lbs/4.5 kg
Cripple -10 lbs/4.5 kg
Drop bags will be due in Anchorage one week before
race start to insure delivery to the checkpoints via ski plane.

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