Good morning to you all, Five teams are now back here at Troll. Word from the trail is that it was raining hard earlier today,which is why they were concerned about the condition of the trai. As there had been not that much snow on some portions they were worried that there would be nothing left. As they were having their planning meeting at Danny and Lorraine's it started to snow. They all decided to stick with the original trail. We went from not enough snow to quite a bit in a very short time. It is a wet snow and most of themushers are coming in pretty drenched. Dog teams are looking good and everone is resting well now. Mushers have hung their wet clothes all around the fire and are getting some sleep. Three of the five mushers in, Warren, Jerry, and Craig have finished their mandatory additional 6 hours of rest, Kim still has one hour and one minute left and Randy has 39 minutes. We do not have any indication of mushers departure times as yet. Ross and Abram left the 2nd checkpoint shortly after 8 pm so we are expecting them around 3-4 am. No new dropped dogs as yet. Our dropped dog turned out to be Vixen, one of the 6 yearlings Warren is running. I just checked on her, she has a sore tricpes but is in great spirits and ate well. This is very much a training run for the yearlings in Warren's team. So far they are all doing well. I haven't had much detail on the journey yet from W but will let you know after the race who the stars were. They all looked strong coming in to this checkpoint. Warren is in good spirits as well. He has an amazing ability to handle sleep deprivation. I, not quite so much so I think I am going to try and close my eyes for abit before we head back out to meet Ross and Abram. Here are arrival times for teams in: Warren at 11:18:57 with 11 dogs Jerry in at 10:50 with 11 dogs Randy in at 11:33:07 with 10 dogs Kim in at 12:11:54 with 11 dogs, 1 in the bag Craig in at 11:01 with 9 dogs At this point, the teams are moving at about the same speeds so we predict that whomever gets themselves out on the trail first has the best chance of winning, but we don't have any indication as yet as to who that will be. Later K