TeamD Adventures

Ahhh.  We finished. Tuesday started with a troublesome TSD called Valdez.  A couple of transposed numbers and a few mileage reference problems resulted in the section being tossed.   We headed north and west to Anchorage.  In Glenallen, we ran a straightforward section and finally on the last day accomplished one of the goals we’d made at the beginning: gets zeroes at every control in one section.   The final section was called Wasilla.  Team 1 was troubled by a school bus, but our luck held out.  Bike 17 nearly didn’t run it due to difficulties with the bike starting a few minutes before the section started.

In the end we finished 2nd overall, and first in class I, 10 points behind car #2, Wallace, Kraushaar and Pierce in class IS.  Class II was won by car 5, Hanson and Toney, Class IIS was won by Jenkins and Garner in the yellow FJ Cruiser.

Results should be posted later at the new site:  www.alcan5000.net.

The 2012 Winter AlCan will follow a course similar to the 2008 one, except that it will end in Valdez, reputed to get the most snow of anywhere.  Sounds about right.

Time to head back home.  It’s Whitehorse tonight.