Hi all,

Well here we are down to 1 more camping trip before the long drive to Alaska.
Over the weekend I made one last trip to Seeley Lake return, about 140 miles. It went well, although it rained abit as I approached Seeley.
The trail was some what tough on the way to Seeley from about monture creek on - which is about the last 20 miles.
It was heavy wet snow , mixed with rain.
I stayed there about 6 hours and ran back home. The trail was much slower all the way back taking about 1.5 hours longer - or about 8 hours,
The snow was very deep going back over Huckleberry pass, due to the snowfall the previous night, the trails are usually groomed on a regular basis but havent seemed to be out much perhaps due to the price of Diesal?
So with the said, a run of 6.5 hous to go 70 miles over to seeley and  8 hours back home was not too bad considering the trail.
I have now run about 1200 miles down here, and have not had to drop a dog or carry a dog, running 20 dog strings most of the runs.
I still have 22 healthy dogs ready to go, all my leaders are in good shape, If any one is interested in leaseing any dogs for Iditarod, now is the time to let me know.
Unfortunatly I cannot get pics onto the site, I have taken some while on my trips, and I will get them on when we can get them downloaded
 I will continue to update you all, and Kate will keep everyone appraised once the race starts.
We are leaving Doug and Mels on Friday morning, and should be in Alaska on Monday Morning, ECG on Tuesday, short run on Wednesday, Musher meeting , banquet, cerimonial start, and then the games begin on Sunday.

Cheers and happy trails!
Warren