Yukon Quest day

This day the winner of the famous dog sled race, the Yukon Quest arrived in Fairbanks...The quest runs over 1000 miles allmost allways far away from civilisation.

Two Rivers is the last checkpoint before the finish...

Brent and Alan at the end of their mandatory 8 h break at two rivers.
What makes the race rely hard is that the mushers are not allowed to get any help from outside. Only very very few assistance from the dog handlers is allowed. If you have a chance go through the quest rules and mushers ethic ... it's worth reading it!

Also the veterinarian are international. And need special training for sled dogs under these conditions.

after more than 900 of 1000 miles, the both are only 2 minutes (!) away from each other.
And another 9h to go...

water for the dogs...

Brent starts for the last 70 miles 2 min. after Alan.

Since their arrival will take some time...hot springs and iron dog riding meanwhile :-)

Another sunset on the way back to Fairbanks to see the finish of the Yukon Quest

Yukon Quest finish 2015

Brent winning the Yukon Quest ... congratulations Brent :-))
Even just arriving at the finish line of one of the hardest races in the world is an amazing job! that's truly one of the toughest sports you can do.

Only midnight yet. So we proceed to the "Murphy's Dome", a god spot outside of Fairbank's city lights to see the Aurora.

Murphy's Law on "Murphy's Road"...

After seeing incredible northern lights, we got stuck in the snow while heading home. On a mountain, at 2 am. However, we were lucky as only after half an hour other cars passed by. Although helped by 2 young Alaskan guys to dig out the car, we had to leave  the car behind. The snow is so powdry that we had no chance to give the tires sth to grab for. uWe got back the next morning to have the car towed.