'86 K-300; Kuskokwim 300 Sled Dog Race

Up until the end of the last century, paragraph 3, take 2, 3, 2, 1. Until the end of the last century, the Yupik survived by subsisting on what they were able to hunt, fish, gather, and fashion with their own hands. paragraph 4, take 1. With the arrival in the 1880s of Western society, the lifestyle of the Yupik Eskimos underwent a radical and irreversible change. paragraph 5, take 1. 3, 2, 1. Some of the changes made things easier for the Eskimos. paragraph 6, take 1. 3, 2, 1. But some of the paragraph 6, take 2, 3, 2, 1.

Some of the new ways caused great anxiety and were accompanied by many of the attendant woes of modern society, alcoholism, unemployment, physical and sexual abuse of women and children, assaulted behavior, divorce and suicide. paragraph 7, take 1, 3, 2, 1. At particular risk are the young people of the Yukon-Kasquim Delta. paragraph 8, take 1, 3, 2, 1. In attempting to provide treatment for the problems, it had helped to foster the dominant culture relied heavily upon systems and procedures developed. The procedures developed in the lower 48.

paragraph 9, take 1, 3, 2, 1. But conditions in the Yukon-Kasquim Delta differ markedly from those found elsewhere. paragraph 10, take 1, 3, 2, 1. paragraph 10, take 1, 3, 2, 1. Ric Ayanna-Lino is a treatment director of the Bethel Group Home, a residential facility for young boys in trouble with the law. We'll be airing the start, K-A-K-M, an Anchorage, K-T-O, and Juno. Also, the Anchorage stations, that'll be picking it up. Later on, it'll be K-I-M, all K-T-V-A and K-T-L-M-U, an ideal station. And I want to say good morning to all of the public radio stations around the state that are picking us up.

I want to say a special good morning to Will Pearson and McGrath, who covered my radio show on the last one. This morning, we'll be catching a plane and flying down to Antioch, and we'll be part of our coverage again this year. Will's one of the best dog reporters in the state, so we're pleased to have him. Tom and I will be here at the starting line. We have K-Y-K crews that will be going out as soon as the race is on the way. There are crews here from the Anchorage Daily News, the Anchorage Times. We have our own print reporters from the Tundra drums. We have radio stations, K-N-O-M, at K-I-C-Y, and no. I have reporters down here and on the trail. We will be feeding radio reports. I will be doing that most of the time at Andrews at night. So if you have a radio station that you want to have covered the live updates, you haven't given me a call down here K-Y-K since we get off the air. We're going to start right out here. This morning, I was the race marshal, Dick Mackie, you just saw a walk by. And we have standing by over here on this side. Come on over, Harry. We dragged these guys away from their sleds just before the race starts and we're very grateful.

Harry Sutherland. Harry, how are you doing today? All right, fine. Here you go. I hope so. We'll early for the conditions like, what do you think? If it stays like this, it's good. Pretty fast. Fast trip. How many dogs you run in this year? 12. 12 dogs. Have you been out on any part of the trail yet? No, tried to come out here yesterday and no go. See my first trip? Yeah, well, at least we don't have that with that heavy, heavy North wind blowing into the dog's face on the way up. Looks like a good, good pace for the race, huh? What are you going to do to stay warm out there today? I'm pouring a lot of clothes. We've all been laughing that if anyone of us got pushed over, we'd squirm on the ground like a beetle because we couldn't get back up. Yeah, that's the way it would be. Harry, where are you from? Tell the junction. Tell the junction. Lot of your friends up there pushing for you up there. I hope so. Friends here and there. Come a lot of places, boy.

Anywhere. Well, we hope that your friends up there are watching on KUAC on television and Fairbanks. And for all of the people who are out there in the bush areas, we are being shown live on the state satellite, the bush satellite. So that ought to get into everybody. Hope they got the generators cranked up and are ready to listen. All right. Any parting words? Well, maybe some finishing words and about three days. All right. Well, we'll be here to watch you finish. All right. Okay. Thanks a lot, Harry, for being with us. Take it out of time. We want to thank Beb Hoffman, who is arranging the interviews and hustling these mushrooms up from their sleds. They've got a lot of duties out there. Besides the sides, of course, hooking up their dogs, they've got people checking their sleds to make sure the mandatory equipment is in the sled, which is a the mandatory equipment this year is an axe and a sleeping bag, I believe. Yes. That's it that mushrooms are caution to carry enough food for them and their dogs, because as usual, the custom swim weather is quite unpredictable. I do see another mushroom over here on the side, Mike. So we have no name in the Bethel area and the Yukon Cuscoum Delta. Been in many of the Cuscoum 300s.

He was rookie of the year in 1984. 1983. And you're representing William's Racing Channel in Camera Act. Family. Akiak. It's along the trail there and you'll see akiak. And if you want to stay there, all the mushrooms are welcome to stay there and have a cup of coffee and take a nap at my house. There's a good bed and everything's there. And if you want to rest, you can rest and go to sleep and rest your dogs. That's a mighty generous of you. I believe that the same offer is open at Anksman's old friendly dog farm on the way out of town. Yeah. But it looks great when I come back from the long race. And it's pretty hard for the dogs to make it back into Bethel. But I like to spend a few minutes as possible in that checkpoint, because the dogs will want to go to their strong houses. Mike, with this eight hour mandatory, that's a new rule this year.

How's that going to change your strategy? No, I think it is a good rule. I think the dogs are going to have more rest and we're going to see a strong finish of the teams here. I think it's pretty hard to tell which are going to be the strongest. But the guys who take care of the dogs when they come in, I think they are going to be the ones that have a little edge on the guys that push their dogs in this race. There are six teams entered from Akiak. What's the total population now? It's about 250. So that doesn't leave very many people left with all the handlers and everybody got down here. Does anybody there in Akiak? Yeah, everybody in Akiak is really in Thursday about the Cusco 300. And the whole town is in it and along with the whole state and region. Well, we're glad to have you with us. And I know you have a few things to attend to before you take off today.

So we'll let you get back to your dogs. I've got to go and hit up the crazies. Good luck, Mike. Good luck on the trail. Thank you. Well, let's talk a bit about, let's see, what's on our magic list. Do you want to go through who's starting the race? Well, no, I want to let them know what some of the rules are. There are a couple of rule changes that have happened since last year's race. One is mandatory five dogs that may be dropped. You start with 15. You got to end with 10. If you start with 12. Mandatory five dogs that have to be dropped. No, no, no. Mandatory limit. Mandatory limit of how many dogs may be dropped. Getting ahead of the card, ahead of the horse here. You have to have five. You have to have five in harness all the time. And that means you're not carried in the basket. They have to be in harness. And the most you can drop is five. So that's made a lot of people think about what they're going to take out on the trail. This year, too, I think the vets probably have a little more control over the race because the vets this year have the discretion to impose the rest stops for mushrooms, or they can actually tell the mushrooms to drop the dogs from their team. So if they're heading out, they're heading back to Bethel of five,

and they're pushing too hard, and they've got one looking real bad. The vet can pull it out, and that mushroom is not going to finish. Right. If we try part of the rules of the race, of course, are to make it safe for the mushrooms, but also prime important to make it a good condition for the dog. We have another local mushroom here from Upriver in Antioch, a well-known name in the area. Steve Bush. How many? It's like a nice day for dog race to me. Well, let's say we put enough requests in with the big one up there. It's really come through at the end. Three weeks ago, just about three weeks ago, we had nothing. Look, dismal. We're going to sell them and go into cigar racing down in Florida, you know. Well, last year you were a judge, and now you're back out on the trail. How's it going to change your perspective? Oh, I don't know. It sort of sensitizes you to some problems, I suppose. But I'd rather be behind a sled than evaluating other people's slads myself, you know. More fun. Did you learn anything from last year's race that you're going to fly to this year? Yeah, I did. I was watching the guys and being able to step back from the whole thing. It was a real interesting. I got some pointers from the boys and beaten.

You did an answer for eight. It's going to make any, how's that going to affect your strategy on the trail? It plays in real well for me because I'm going to use my dogs later on for the rod. And I plan to rest them a lot. And I think it's real interesting. It adds a touch of strategy to it. It just can't be an all out run. And I like that. I think it'll do wonders for the dog's condition at the end too. Is that kind of unusual for a mushroom? Well, I guess maybe in the big yards, it might be unusual. But is it kind of unusual for a mushroom to use the same team for a race like the 300 and the end of the rod? No, that's of course some of the well-funded canals. They have enough dogs to have several squads. But Jerry and Eve and Susan in the past, Rick, they've all used the same dogs in both. And you need to be careful of them. Well, you know, Joe, Joe Garning was running in first place last year and he decided to pack it in and save the dogs to the idea rod. Didn't seem to be too bad a move for him last year.

Yes, they last year was exceptionally hard on dogs. So this looks like it might be real good. A little tough on their feet. But other than that, I think it'll be really good for the shoulders anyway. Right. And the back end. It might be a little more comfortable ride. I hope so. I hope so. Well, I know you have things to get back to too. Do you want to say any words of advice, anybody up at Annie, I get ready for you coming home? No, I don't really have anything to say to them. Other than I'll see them tomorrow afternoon sometime, I hope. All right. Good luck. Thank you Steve. Steve Busch is starting 14th this year. In 1983, the last time he ran, he finished. What is it I have? In 1982, excuse me, he finished 13th. So I'm sure he's looking up and looking to pick up a piece. He's been doing a lot of training with. He's been doing a lot of training with Jerry Austin. We are in the shoot for those of you who haven't figured it out. We are in the shoot about two feet from the starting line. And we're in a very popular position for officials going back and forth and checking out what's going on. I suspect there's a lot of people hoping to improve their positions from the last time they ran the race, of course, because this year's K300

is offering the biggest person in this history $50,000 total, total purse with $10,000 going to first place finisher. And amounts go down from there, but 10 grand is a nice first place finisher. I could use that. I don't know if my lunch is paid for. I don't know about you. That my pay for the dog food, I guess, for some big teams. That's true. Well, standing off to the wings here, sky blank and ship. Guy Hoot. Guy Hoot. Yeah, oh, this guy from Fairbanks, yeah. Yeah, that's your cue. Come on in. All right. And Guy, you've made the transition now from one end of the sled to the other. You're going to be an official this year. How does that feel? Ah, but I'm not sure. We'll see when the race is over. Everything goes right. I don't feel all right. You have any worries about marshalling friends? Well, I don't really have any friends. So that's not a problem. But no, you know, I look at the rules as just a way to make it fair for everybody. And so if somebody has to be penalized, it's only because it has to be made fair for everyone

else. And that gets friend or someone you've never known. It's all the same. Now, there are hopefully our goal is just to have everybody get around the course. All the dogs get around the course and have no penalties for everybody. Well, I know Dick Mackey has said more than once that the officials are there to make sure everybody gets around the track and to help people out. He's not a, and an idea of trying to catch somebody doing so. That's right. And if we've explained the rules well enough to them, and we could drivers me, and I think that everybody understands what they have to do. The trail seems to be marked better than it's ever been marked. And that should aid in the reduction of any type of problems. There's been a little change in the trail since you were in it. There's missing one checkpoint this year, the checkpoint of Acciachuk. How's that going to affect the race? Well, I don't think it will affect this race. It affects things like records from years past when every change of trail.

But this trail has changed every year. I've run it due to weather. And this year is no exception. We've got a good snow, which is a real exception for this area. Now, now, we've had some years in which the weather and trail conditions have just been horrible. Sometimes it's ice, and sometimes the first year, this reminds me more of one of them. The first year we gained the reputation of going to 100 below. Yeah, evidently that first year was a lot of snow one year. It was real warm and wet, then turned real cool, which is real hard on drivers and dogs. But that kind of stuff is what makes this race kind of special. It's a short race, so it could be easy, but it's not an easy race, and the weather is the main factor. All right. I believe now we are about ready to take a look at some mushroom profiles. I was able to talk with two of the people who are, thanks, Guy. Thanks, Guy. Two of the people who have won the race are running it this year. That's a hard line.

And so we're going to take a look and meet those guys. That's Jerry Austin and Myron Aksman are the two previous winners. And let's cut to that and see what it looks like. And we'll be right back. It's a tough as competition that's ever been on this race. The way I look at, there's between 13 and 16 teams that could win.

But I've had, I've had real good training, especially just lately since we got some snow. We ended up having to boot our dogs up, and so we'd boot like a six-dog team. Clearer, anger, parrot, I would boot one team and it would go out. And three of us would boot the second team and it would go out. And then two of us left with boot one, and then the last guy had to boot on his own. That was always him. That was always the first one. But we had to do it off a lot of booting, but we came down to a near-perfect feat now. So he pleased with the change in the rules for the 300. Oh, yeah. I think it's just fantastic. What kind of change do you think it's going to make? I think it's some of the guys that were almost winning and not quite. I think it's really going to help them. They're not going to need difference to me because I just run my own race anyway. But some of the guys in the past that have pretty much run their dogs into the ground. I think it's going to increase their chances of winning. You know, some of the local mushrooms and stuff like that. It's going to, I think they're going to be terrific rules.

And what's your prediction for your own fish? I'd like to be at least number 15 or better. I've only got one pup, one two-year-old dog, and apparently has one two-year-old dog. And the rest of them are all veterans. And I've got three dogs that have disappeared or seventh cusp call. They run every one of them, three leaders. And actually every dog here, but two, has run this race. So I know I'll make it. I'm not concerned about that. I think you're the only one that's finished. You've got to go 300 that has been run. All I've got to do is show up, have a good time. Go 300 miles in the night. Can the least maintain one record? The Cuscoquim 300 and KY UK, we're in this together.

We're on as talking on the air. What's going on? It's been won the 1983 race in a close one with a spirit of the wind, George Atla. Since then, the pace of the race has picked up and the competition got more fierce. In the comfort of his home with his son Andy, Myron talks about strategy. I suspect that our pace will be slower than the last two years, probably more like three years ago when the race took almost a day longer than it's been taking lately.

I've always taken a few weak dogs to drive them out because the way you find out if they're any good. Not necessarily weak, but unproven dogs are young dogs. That's real dangerous now and I won't be doing that. The optimum number for anybody is the maximum number that they are sure of. It's a little dangerous to go fast here this year because our rules are different. With only five drop dogs, there are going to be teams almost surely if it's a fast pace that won't finish because it'll have too many dogs drop. This year, looking at the field and looking at the prize money and break down how it pays. Knowing what I want to do the rest of the year, I'll be a little cautious this year. I surely want to win, but I'm not going to take any big chances of not finishing because the prize money is such that it pays to finish second, third, fourth, fifth, whatever.

It's not going to embarrass me or anything if I don't win. I won't be taking any extreme chances just to stay in front of somebody. But I do plan on seeing what I can do about winning, of course. Maybe as winners of the race were running in this year's race, but there is a whole list of people who have been suggested as potential in her sunny landers since in Butcher, I believe Rick Mackey last year, but you don't have to run the trail before to win the race on their first running. There's about, probably realistically, there's probably eight teams trying for first place and then the rest of the field is trying for second. For those of you who don't recognize the voices, stick Mackey and he's the race marshal.

The second time you've come down here, this looks a whole lot better than the last time you were here. Oh, hey, this is great. It's very well organized, there's been a lot of effort into it and especially on the trail. It seems like every year in the past, somewhere along the trail, someone's got goofed up. I just don't think that's going to happen on this year. I have not been on the trail personally myself, but I've sent some of the officials out there and I've talked to people that have run the trail on snow machines, part on dog teams, flown over it and they just say there's absolutely no way you can get off. As the race progresses, we'll be following it both by snow machine in the air in vehicular traffic where we can. So I think we're going to have it pretty well covered. I don't think anyone can get any problem. Well, those eight teams that are vying for first place, who do you, what kind of team do you think will have the advantage? Not necessarily. Well, I don't know. I think after yesterday's wind that it has taken away the advantage, but it's not necessarily a disadvantage. If it puts everybody back down into the same, I'll give you a good example of Susan Butcher,

when she gets that dog team or hers in a trot, it sounds like a machine gun going off. She's not going to do that this year because all of a sudden they're going to run into a drift and they're going to have to back off. So I can't say that she's lost her advantage. She's back down having to run the same difficult areas of the trail and everyone else has. Are we going to be looking at the person who breaks trail is taking a little more of a beating? I think so. And I think you're going to see that play an important factor. Some of the teams is that natural instinct to get out there and just go far. And I think that could prove costly to them. And of course we've had some new rules this year. The six-hour mandatory layover, either at CalSCAG on the way out, and any act of CalSCAG on the way back. Some of the mushrooms say, well, that's going to play an important part. It's not going to as far as taking a six-hour layover.

It's where you take it. I would think most of them would take it on the way out. And if they decide not to, they still got two more options. But if you wait until CalSCAG on the way back, no matter how the race is progressing, you've lost all your options and then you have to take it there. This year, I commented earlier that the vets may have a little more authority in the race. Is that true or is that pretty much had the same authority all through the races? Well, they've had the ultimate authority on the care of the dogs in any race today. However, the race committee, in regardless of whether it's the Cusco 300 or any other race, they write rules according usually to what something has happened in the past. And then it's up to the officials to say, what was your intention and how are we going to enforce this? And the race committee here, as in other races, have determined that we don't want an exhausted team coming across the line. Now, you have every right to have a tired team coming across this line after all is a competitive event.

And there's a fine line between an exhausted team and a tired team and what determines that. And the only thing you can go by is a tired team is still pulling the sled. An exhausted team is unable to pull the sled and the mush is pushing the sled. And so that's our definition of what we're going to be looking for to look on the way back. If we observe a team and even pass there, there's a mandatory two hour layover for a vet check and official check. But even if it a later date, we see a team that the mush is having to push that sled and the dogs are just kind of bobbling along. Well, that team's too tired and we're going to stop them before they cross the finish line, and we're going to have a terrific, queef luck, or wherever it may be on the way back in. Well, we obviously don't have that problem here this morning. No, that's for sure. Everybody is just screaming and ran to go. And once again, it's a beautiful day for race.

And I think we're going to have a tremendous race. All right. Well, we look forward to it. And we'll let you do your job. Okay. Thanks for coming up, Dick. And for those of you who didn't catch it in the beginning, it is 20 below here. And it is a beautiful blue skies. We have on everything we own here. We're dressed appropriately. We've each got about four layers of clothes on. We want the thermal to down to a fur. So the whole gamut of a dress model. I personally would like to thank Janet Chants, Kaiser, who won me this park, which is lined in Fox to keep me warm. I'd like to thank my wife for getting me my new path this year. I keep losing. And I see the guys at the starting line would like to thank the folks who were at them. Another kind of spray paint, because the spray paint froze. That happens every year. And the past six years of the race, I've been in trouble. I've been in charge of the start and finish. And you know, little problems like spray paint cans. And there's a million details to get done ready for the race. And it sure is nice to be on this side of the shoot. And on this side of a microphone, instead of trying to coordinate this. Yes.

Although, as my renakes have said last year, it's a lot warmer on the back of the sled runners. For those of you who have not seen at Cascocum 300 sled dog race star, we're one of the few race places that start with a double shoot. The first teams are coming in now. They're really so burned. And I see one hand. They're who's being drug on the in the shoot here. And I believe this is Peter Galila right next to us. And on the other side, it'll be John Sur from from wasilla. You want to be do the odds. Do we do the evens? Yeah, right. Okay. I'll do the odds. Yeah. This is Peter Galila on this side. Okay. Peter Galila's back. Yeah. Representing keys are all like kennelies these 30 years old. It's got about 200 miles on his team. They'll be running for the experience. He's rookie this year. His first Cascocum 300, like I said. He's going to be running 13 dogs. And he's got a ton of sponsors from Acia. The mushy dogs for about 70 years. And traps for a living. When asked why he won, what he wants out of this race.

He just wants a good run. His sponsors are Wesley Gilela, Nick Gilela, Marie Wossley, Nicole Mute Corporation, Ted Jones, Tommy D'Poca, John Rymos, Moses, Stone, and James. James. And David Gilela. And John Sur from Wasilla. He's running from coastal kennels. John is a high school history teacher at Wasilla High School. We hope all you out there are watching us. He sponsored Moistes and Mike Smith, the teacher in Inc. And Joey Lub, Joey and Luis O'Neill of D'Psoak Bay. John has run the cold with classic. He's got about 600 miles of ice and gravel training in this year. John's 30 states have been running dogs for about seven years. He's planning to start about 12 dogs. The only thing that concerns him so far is he's worried about the weather. We almost had a team. Peter Glila's team almost got away. However, across the start line here is about a 3-quarter inch nylon rope that is guaranteed to hold any team that comes up here. So the hook caught on them.

No problem. We're about to get started. We've got about, looks to be about a minute and a half. Before the actual start of the race, we're going to get countdowns from the official timer and grand. And for the race, it's going to start any minute. Again, the weather. You just can't say in the weather. It has been beautiful. This made me the very best start. I've ever seen for it in the seven years of the K3. Another place is of the state. This might not be considered ideal. But for us here, we used to it. And we loved it. The dogs need to warm up. They don't get over here. I just heard we have about 30 seconds to the start. This snow cover we have, we've gotten in the last couple of weeks. Good for a number of reasons, right? Before it was all bare tundra, which is extremely hard on shoulders and hills of the dogs when they're running hard, when they're trotting. With this snow cover, you've got nice, soft padded conditions on your trail. It minimizes those muscle injuries. Although the drawback, of course, being with the ice skits and toes. Here, we're starting out.

Right. There. Peter Galila and Josh. Sir, off on the race. The first two mushrooms started. Two teams out. It's a rookie. A lot of times you see that Peter had out first. A lot of times to make a little deal. We have two guys in the show that they will, one will be allowed to go up first and the other will follow up. Because no one wants to dogs to tangle up right outside the show. Yeah, and the crowd usually always, you can see them down at the other end. They're packed around the end. They usually get nice enough to leave the space. Coming up next is Mark Boily is going to be leaving third. And Mark is Mark from Nome's running potlash kennel dogs. The sponsors are H&W distributors. Joe had construction, stop shop and save, and no liquor. Mark's 35 years old and has been running dogs for about 30 years. He's run three. I did it. In 1988 to 1984. And he's not a little bit of strategy here. He's not giving away how many miles he has on his dogs. But it says the conditions that he treated.

He's starting 11 dogs. Like to think his wife, Jean, his son, Shelley. He's construction worker. They all helped him out. I think he's a construction worker. Oh, okay. Mark Boily is going to go. Doug Darlin is in the other show. Doug's a Bethel lawyer. He's 38 years old. They trained around the Bethel area. And he works for the excellent love. He's here and down. They don't really don't. He got about 800 miles on his team and pretty late waiting for conditions to approve. He plans to start with about 10 dogs. He ran the K-300 last year, placed 21st. He wants to finish about 80. He said he entered because of your pressure. I think he's hard to get in the law and not enter the race. Some of you may remember that Doug Darlin was one we waited about three hours to come across the finish line last year. And found out that he had stopped here in the street. He turned off balding. He made a mistake for two hours. He went from across the finish line. Here we got the start going down. One, then Mark Boily and Doug Darlin are off. Number three and four.

And Mark is going to clear the shoe. And then Doug Darlin will take off. One thing about the Bethel Mushers mentioned that Doug last year was in his dog yard. That's a real problem for Bethel Mushers, especially if the trail comes back on familiar trails that they trained on because the dogs know where to turn and go back home. And Doug Darlin still turned right in the yard. Doug, what Doug did was he burned us up the next morning and came across the finish line. I think he lost maybe one place, but it wasn't much. We are coming up now. Gus Johnson and Harry Sutherland. Yeah. Gus Johnson is from Unileplady's age. He's 25 years old. He has wife and two girls, full-time dog mushrooms, been treating under icy conditions around Unileplady, which about everyone has been. He says he has about 800 miles on his dogs. And he's entered the racist time to do it right. Gus has run, of course, in 1985, he finished an eighth position. He's run in the Norton Sound Race, the Norton Sound 200. And he's run at this year. And he's sponsored by a lot of people. Ryan, Harry's all-o-ac company.

You will play people, family and friends, and the Christian sense. And he, oh, I see you finished 20th in the, I get her out in 1980. Of course, in 85, he finished eighth in the K-200. So he's going to be looking to improve his position. And you met Harry Sutherland a little earlier. He's from Delta, John Schenery, he's 45 and looks to be the real Alaskan Trapper. He's been training in dry creek. He's got about 1,000 miles on his team. He's got about 13 years of mushy history. It's his first one in battle. His races include the idea to run from the Yukon quest for close, but, and he's now running the Cusco 300, because he's never been up here before. He's also sponsored on shovel head construction. Deals, grab the wire, lefty Roberts, and farm traders. He places her up with about 12 dogs. And he is a process in the shoot right over there. He has Gus Johnson, and then he's right here. Three, two, one goes down. So there we go. And the next teams are right up behind him. We have Gus Johnson. This is going to be Gus Chuckknuck in the 7th position, and Joe D'Amato's starting in the 8th.

Gus ran the K-300 in 1983, finishing 12. He's from New Stoyock. And where is his? Gus Chuckknuck. He's trained again under no snow conditions. That's about the story of the reason of this year. He has about 450 miles on his dogs, and he's run the 300 a couple of times. A couple of years ago, excuse me. He's going to be running 16 dogs. His nickname is, he's just showing up. And I'm not sure what it means, but it's significant, I'm sure. Finished 12 in 1983 in the K-300. He's also a village public safety officer and when he's not running dogs, he's sponsored by Terry, a creek lodge, and a new junior of New Stoyock. So he's going to be lucky enough. He's going to be looking to prove this to him with that $10,000 first prize. The other side is Joe D'Amato. He's a carpenter. He's going to be 31 years old. He's got quite sure to buy kids. He was rookie in the year when he ran last year. He plans to run this year knowing

only the Lord will know where he finished. He's sponsored by his brother, Moses Olin, and family, Joe Salas, and a young man to see. He's been running dogs for about 10 years. And he's only got about 300 miles on his team. He's a little concerned about how that's going to affect him in the end. He's got the longest string of dogs here, though. 10, 10, 17. 20 dogs is here. He looks like he's got about 16 dogs. He's got 16 dogs. This is just steam on this side of the 16 dogs. He's got 16 dogs jumping at their harness to his heart of heart. Sometimes it's hard to realize how what the noise level of about 400 or 500 dogs is back in the pit area, but it is tremendous. Here they're going on about to go. I do not envy the writer on this stage. That's a very precarious position. Just chuck now. And Joe D'Amato, of course Joe D'Amato, rookie in the year in 1985. Coming up next, it's already in a nice position as bar to gothluck of him. I did it again.

Who's in temp bar? Bill Carter. Bill Carter. Bar to gothluck is what he's from. I mean, Monica's sponsor is Delta Air Service. He's a bar that's been running dogs about only about three years, but says he has about 2,000 miles. He's a good training on his team. He's a rookie. And he plans to start with 11 dogs. He wants to see how this is run and learn. I suspect that he can be better. He has the only dog team getting smarter. As far as we know, he has been training and avoid it. He really does have a lot to learn about the big racing. Bill Carter is no rookie, although he's the first time he's running this race. He's his general contractor from the Nana, running Carter's channel. He says his family is a hundred dogs, led dogs. His sponsors are going to go out and feed people and opt for assaying and refining. He was the first musher to enter the 300, and he was the first musher to enter the 300, and he did rot. You've heard Wes twice. The Cole's foot. He's running. I did rot twice. You've gone twice. But Andy's round his foot racing circle. You know, a bar to Gothla got a little kitty and the musher is drawing on Monday night because him being the only team in a monic

He re-rived him a little bit about it not having much competition down there and winning every race which we'll see how he does on their race through. We'll see how he does on their race through. The team's are starting at two minute intervals. This is a really big old sled here. It's a really long one. Oh, this is a rather heavy looking sled. It's unusual to see that in the race of 300 miles. Most people have switched to the plastic tamogans or the real light wood sleds kind of cross between freight and the sprint sleds. But this one is a heavy sled. He has a lot of gear in there too. Shovel, ax, and all kinds of things. It's very interesting to see that there were new mountains. The air that mushrooms take along with them. Some of them have packed very, very great. Fire to golf lock and build cotter are off. 9 in 10 position. Coming up. And starting number 11. Another familiar name in the immediate area. John Nicklion. The John Nicklion. John Nicklion.

John Nicklion. Like I said, it's back. He's 22 years old. The youngest mushroom in the race. I think last year he was the youngest mushroom in the race also. He's trained under. He's trained under. Except he was the year younger. That's good. Anyway, he said he's trained under sad and bad conditions. A common lament around Bethel this year. He says he has enough miles on his dogs. He's in at the race because his dogs have unpaid bills. And he hopes to pay off those bills, I suspect. I said he hopes to finish around 14th, but you never can tell. But he's been running for about two years, but he's been mushing his whole life. So he's got a lot of experience under his bill. He's been running back for a whole life. John Nicklion is about 45 years old. He's been running back for a few years. He's got a lot of sprinting. He's got a full starting line of the race. He's not here. He's made it up to the starting line. That means that he'll automatically start at the end of the race. Unless he gets here by the end of the start time.

Although, he was pulling up for a better year. If he doesn't come here, we might add that his time does start when his scheduled position starts. So he'll be losing minutes right away. So John Nicklion, John's a real trooper out there. He finished the race last year. And he's back here to try it again and try to improve his thing. He finished last year. He finished the John Nicklion. He finished 18. So he's hoping to move up four more places. He's one of six teams that's in from Akyon. There's a lot of an Akyon. Akyon's a lot of a lot of representers. There's three teams from Tulook Sack. They're the team's entered from the village of Akyon. Then they're from Mendel. John Nicklion from Akyon's off, starting at number 11 position. John Nicklion still has not made it. So he'll be starting at the end. He's coming up as another Akyon. Robert Ivan and any Akyon, I'm sure Steve Bush. Now Robert Ivan, another, a lot of familiar names.

And he's 52 years old. He's been training mostly around Akyon. He has about 300 miles on his team this year. And he's been running because of 300. Because he wanted to have some fun. The question, well, I guess it is fun out there. He's worried most about open water and we'll run 12 or 13 dogs. He's been mushing since he was about 14 years old. Sponsored by the City of Akyon. He hacked the keyboard edition of Akyon. And K-316, he's finished 14th in 1982. And 16th in 1981. 16th in 1981, he says there's no point in having dogs if you don't run. Robert Ivan was one of the Ivan brothers. I did run when he could still run in team. So he ran. I did a rots when he would be older. Steve Bush and Akyon runs from the dog there. He's 38. It's wife Mabel. He's got two children. Dylan and Dietrich help him a lot. Get off the training conditions. He said he could win at him at the beginning of the show. He got somewhere between 6 and 900 miles on his team. He had her at the 300 for the fun of the training

and he is planning to run the idea to run this year. He's run the K-304 times before he was a race judge last year. He says he wants to finish in the top 40 if he finishes. He'll help certainly make that. He's a general product. And he's not a dog for sure. And he's sponsored by Dr. James lengthy, the veterinarian. Moffat construction champion. Classic. Mike. I just feel warm. I just feel warm right now. It's not like I'm cold about it. I just feel like you have my gloves on. Both teams are getting ready to go. They go up to zero. They're off. They're off. Coming up next is the Shishmurf cannonball. Herbie Nye up in Charlie Fick of Marshall. This next pair is just a heck of a cut. He'll be the heck of a pair to start out the race together. Herbie Nye up like we said, Shishmurf cannonball. Trump Shishmurf. He's 56 years old. He's the oldest mushroom. He's the oldest mushroom. He's running the race this year. And his wife Elizabeth, he has a wife named Elizabeth.

Seven kids, five girls and two boys. He had a pretty good career. He said, there's my three in conditions. And he has about 1,600 miles on his team. And he just wants to finish. He really loves racing dogs. Herbie does as you can hear, he races in the races all around the state. And came to Bethlehem again because if you have dogs, there's no use keeping them at home. He's run the Shishmurf race. Shishmurf, he's a race. And the cobug, 200 and so forth as she already came in first, both times. So he'll be running 13 dogs this year. There's no worries because he's been running for 45 years. The crane operator in the summer in Shishmurf, an ivory carver when he has time. He's sponsored by Ryan here in Walford, and Walford, and Walford, and Iokpok. In 1983, Herbie finished eight. So he's going to be looking for a top position this year. Well, and so is Charlie Fick. Charlie Fick has entered the 1980, 81, 83, 84, and 85, plus 53 hundreds. He has sponsored his mass incorporated David Anvil and family. Charlie's 44, he's been running dogs for about 30 years. His best done a lot of dog marching knowledge,

and a lot of his dog strains to a lot of the other countries in his race. He's been in several K-3 hundreds, and the idea to ride his training conditions up on the U-carver for. He says he hasn't got as many miles from his teams as he's like, and he's planning to start about 14-0. Real competitive, real competitive racer. Like we said, in 84, he finished seven. I don't know what position he finished in 85, but with a $10,000 first price, you can bet he's going to be out there this year, looking for that lead. He's got the team, then it's just hard to control her. And there they go. Charlie Fick, and Herbie, not fun, Charlie. Coming up in position 17, is Dean Painter, from Grayley, and Sam Smith, number 18 from Bethel. Dean Painter, his sponsors are Grayley, and Air Service, D&G Express, and Cheryl Underwood, Rita Damoski. He's 25 years old, and he's been rushing for about 15 years, so he has a lot of experience. He ran the Ididarod once, finishing 29. He's finished 16th in 1984, and 10th in 1981, and the K-300.

And he's finished first. He's finished. He's finished. He's finished. guys a marked trail talk about it.

They have double stakes a gate put out with about all stakes and it's about 50 yards from the open water and they need to go from the top point. The painters Sam Smith are off on this year's race next position 19 adding international flavor for the first time the customer 300 pair pair home grin from Norway. He's been treated with Jerry Austin up in St. Michael's pair home grin is where's his. They're on top and right next to his right point so you've got a little early. A pair home grin to right. Austin Kennels he's from St. Michael's been training with with Jerry up there. The sponsors are chevron and you can't have large lines pairs are rookie from DACA Norway. 27 years old he's been running dogs for two years with about 1,000 miles on the dogs this year.

He's planning to start 11 dogs and again pair has he's trained with Jerry Austin around St. Michael's where conditions are ready to go as everywhere for he sold everything he owned to come to come and run the dogs. He's worried like some other people about all the water up there. All right. Mike Williams a little earlier. This is correct. Yeah. Yeah. Williams Kennels. They put their dogs together. Carly Cameron. He sponsored by their families. The year is first 300. That was several years ago. He placed seven. He's now been running dogs about 800 miles so far this year. And conditions that have ranged from terrible to great. I said he's talking about the last couple of weeks. He's planning to start 14 to 16 dogs. He's on your shake and hands. He's worried most about the top mushrooms. Yes, I'm sure he has other worries besides the top mushrooms, but who knows? I mean, rupees have finished, you know, you know, it isn't advantage to be training

on the trails. Yeah. That's true. About to take all the care home. I understand we'll have a much of a profile of pair home going after the, after they start the home. Yeah. The team's around. Yeah. Yeah. Some of these. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Pair home. And Mike Williams. Yeah. Yeah. Here we go. This year's test become 300. Yeah. Leaving in position number 21, Eddie Peter up to look at here. And he would be the position 22 Wayne Miller. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He's 35 years old. He has about 500 miles on his dogs. He likes 300 because it's a man and dog race. He just wants to finish. He's been running since he was kid. And he's old enough. Since he's since he's the most productive. He's like, we're old. He sponsored by Carl, Peter, Sam, Peter, and Tony Owen. All right.

And another, you're over there in the other chute is Wayne Miller from the gnome area. He's 27. Got a white kid. And the kids waiting for him back there. Trained in the gnome and coyote area that he had to break trail for all of his training. And he's got about 2,000 miles on his. He's got about 2,000 miles on the team. And it looks like they're ready to go right now. And they're trying to get some handlers over there to slow them down. He's hoping to finish in the top 10. He's so sponsored. He's right. The gnome sweepstakes and the unilaterally cleat 250. 25 seconds. 25 seconds to go. You got a few seconds to go. I'm glad I wore my muck luck today. I was all like I say. I see you've got a bunch of standing on those. I don't know of any of any machine-made boots that'll take it other than bunny boots. I refuse to wear those. These are muck luck. These are special. Each one will look if it keeps up here. Well, all of these guys are wearing to go. These guys both have toboggan slits. Each one will have any air. They become real popular.

It's usually what they own. The massive amount of snow out there. Well, it's no condition. Yeah, I mean, you know, the bottom of the toboggan. So I just, the runners sink down. And you've got balls running over there, which is really not really. And the branches and all of the brushes. There we are. They're off. They're in Wayne Miller. Coming up next. Position number 23 is a name familiar around the state and in this area for the question is run. There's 300 several times before. She just got back from the Beargree, John Beargree's classic Susan Butcher, leaving it in 23rd position. And in 24th, position is D. John Rowe. She'll be the finest women. Butchers in 18th. Both of them are. Both of them are. Susan Butcher's a veteran, of course, of the K-300. She finished this three seconds. She came in second twice. And once or close second, she went in about two years ago. She recently finished second in the John Beargree's recent episode. She's coming in second. I did a rod game. And in the top five in that race, she's run eight.

I did a rods and all. And the K-300 three times. She's in 31 years old. She plans to start 14 dogs. Her sponsors are allied fibers, Linden transport and Ron Tucker. She was second in the 300 in 1986 and 1981, second in 1984. 1982 is the second in the eye. I did a rod. And, oh, and she'd like to name her for Dave Monson. Thank you. Mary, do you think? I'm sorry to get Monson. I know you're up there watching her, and she's breaking down here. The John Rowe Bethel's running for the John Beargree. She's running for the captain. She's running for the captain. She's running for the captain. She's running for the captain. She's running for the captain. She's running for the captain. She's running for the captain. She's running for the captain. She picked up so many Joe Redictons that he dropped when I ran that race. Dee is entered the K-300 every year, but in 1984, she scratched in the 1980 race during a 41-day time. She run the 10-year-old rod four times, these three teams. She's been running dogs for about eight years. She has a mom, 500 miles on her team.

She has one with 13 dogs. she's a commercial fissure and she's right here married to John Wright, John Wright, she's worried about the speed and the race that it's going to be so bad. I don't know, we'll have to see about how fast the race is. Susan Butcher and Dee John are off in the 80s, 80s, it's got some equipment coming up next in position number 20. Minds of the Chamberlain, and Clarence Tork of Union Fleet, Steve Chamberlain is a sponsor and as our married camera off, come on and Elvis, and Steve's run the kick through a 100 twice, he's been running a dog for about 10 years and now 40 years old, as an unknown number of miles on his dogs, he put his plans to start 10 this year, he ran an 84, 85, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50, 50. So, been here before again looking to improve his position with this big first prize. That's right, Judy Tork, Clarence Tork of Union Fleet is sponsored by U.D.s Kennels, that must be his name as Beauty's Kennels, he's sponsored by Ryan Ayer, he himself is a commercial pilot and a fisherman, his wife Linda and his kids made a dog with a cane or a watch

in their renewal of the other, which satellite, Clarence's and I did a rod veteran, he's finished four in the 1983 in the Cusco 300, one minute ago, one of my say, he's finished real well in the K-300 in the idea. He's around the idea for three times, and also the Al-Alaska's unique states, Clarence's 43 is about three, 50 miles of turning the ice in windy trails in the Union Fleet area, he's planning to start about 11 dogs, most of them young ones, he wants to be as competitive as possible, that's much more time for I want to win, you bet. We're sitting here, I just noticed in a cloud of aroma, an aromatic cloud, I can hear it waving over my head here, I suspect it's from the dogs, the mushrooms do rub that on the shoulders and legs too, to loosen up the muscles so they don't start out quite so still, but it's a kind of a national champion of the Al-Alaska. Although it's unpleasant, a lot pleasant, the other things we could smell, this is one of the best growing areas of the state after the rest of the day, you guys take that whenever you

go, okay, there they go, coming up hard, a two-time wonder, Jerry Boston is Sunnylander, now that's a distinguished spirit, another good pair, another good pair starting out here, Jerry Austin is from St. Michael's, again he was running with the train with pair Holmgren, Jerry Austin is running as Austin chemicals, Austin kennels, dogs, his sponsors are Chevron, canna barge line, and Jerry's racing every K-300 students, it's began the morning, washer to do for him, so he's finished his first wife in the K-300, he's also I did her on veteran, and many open times and has run the Al-Alaska statistics, Jerry's 38 years old last year's wife Clara ran the 300 with him, she's at least 13, he also has three daughters, a pair Holmgren is also running Austin dogs this year, they trained together, Jerry says he has about 1100 miles of training on his team this year, in the war training conditions, he's running 11 dogs this year, he's running because he does it during the year, what can he say? In 1980 he finished fifth in the K-300 and 81, first

in 82, 6th in 83, 12, 84, I'm not sure what position he's going to take that, moving at 85, after that, it's 6th twice, we're in 12th, well that helps us with it, we're going to need a regular one in front, I'm not sure if you want to talk about it, he said he's letting her from Johnson River, but he's calling himself from Flower Edition, because he is sharing superman's team, he's from a place we heard in this race last year, his sponsor is a quality meet, very standard clinic, six in his heart, wear and tape, chiropractic, son he's never run the K-300, but he's an I did a rod veteran and the one around 32, conquest two years ago, he's 35, he's been charged forever in about 12 years, he has about 1200 miles of training in real nice conditions obviously, he plans to start about 14, he came here to see their area, but everything he does, he's gone for number one, you know the beauty of a two team start, which the K-300 is the only major race with a two-two start, is that you

get great match up, like you're off the side and live now, these are coming up, my relationship is that you buy an a'sman from Bethel and Blanco, Wosley from Portage Creek, Byron is again run almost every race, not quite, he's running an old friendly dog farm, dogs, his sponsors are OFDF and inks, but law, makes sense, what can I say, and inksman law offices, Byron has only been, he's only been running dogs for about eight years, but he's been busy, he's made quite a name for himself in the state, he's run every K-300 except last year, as I did a rod veteran of, he ran the idea to rod one time and he ran the ways in one and scratch, he's got 12 hundred miles of fair condition, fair at excellent training on his team, he learns 38 years old, his wife Suzanne and three kids have been helping him, he's going to start 15 goals this year, he won the 1983 K-300 and a very close finish with George Adler, he came in 19th and 18th and 18th and 18th and 18th to first of 83 and he's scratching, he was at the microphone with me last year, he really appreciated

his insight, his daughter, Dolly won the K-300, he's got a new story, he's got a real bad condition, he's only got about 350 miles on his team, he has no potential for a village of his own, but he does plan to start 14 dogs, he's been running dogs seriously, since 19th and 18th, it's not a good idea, his father's are in an end market in JL&M, he ran K-300 in 1982 and he finished 12th, he invited a nice position of 83 for the position of the day, he worked seven positions in 1985, that was a lovely one place in Alak, and at $10,000, $10,000 first place, he's going to be flying, and he's winning in his eyes, he's going to get his break undone here, coming up next, coming up next to his number third is Raimi, Raimi, 10 of Nick, and Greg, the leg of ACK, Raimi, of course, having

the same last name as his dad, Joe, ready to in senior, who has also run the race several times, Joe was scheduled to run this year, but had to scratch, Raimi has 41 years old, he's had a real bad training condition, but has still has about 500 miles on his team, he can get into the race because it's in his blood, I wonder why, he predicts he'll finish first or last, and plans to start with 11 dogs, he's worried most about the wind in the street, his sponsors are neutral dog, Nick Licker, short, big hit road, Valley feed and seed, he's been running dogs for about 30 years, and he's a fisherman, he has white names, he's got a boy, he's got a guy in the neck, and they're watching us on one minute ago, he's got a boy in his life, and he's got a boy in his life, and he's got a boy in his life, and he's got a boy in his life, and he's got a boy in his life, and he's ready, so don't let anybody finish with his sled bag when you get a former, he trained around ACK, and he has only 200 miles on his team, he plans to start with 11 or 12 dogs, he fishes in the summer, trying to get another dog, he wants to run his dogs

in the corner. It's his first time in the cage, 300, he's been running dogs for about 40 years of his sponsor, and he's got a vacac, bob lake, and sand jacket. There's much rookies and this year's race bar band, the rookie, there's a special prize for rookie of the year, or Sierra, one of our fine sponsors of the race, is donating two round trip tickets to any of their destinations in the state. That reminds me, I wanted to get in quick, some of the sponsors of the K-300 are here, Alaska, Sierra, Alaska, and BMW, city of Bethel, National Guard, so we'd like to thank those folks. And we're going to sponsor a lot of people out here in the race, and they were out here this morning when they're, they're, they're truck with a scoop on the front, and they're in the shop, they're in the shop, they're in the shop, they're in the shop, they're in the shop, they're in the shop, and they provided the banner, they've really been real supportive. Coming up next year, yes, who is this Moses Frederick?