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Comments on: Yukon Quest 2011 – Day 10 https://whynow.dumka.us/2011/02/14/yukon-quest-2011-%e2%80%93-day-10/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Tue, 15 Feb 2011 06:19:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2011/02/14/yukon-quest-2011-%e2%80%93-day-10/comment-page-1/#comment-55417 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:42:21 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=19044#comment-55417 He received second degree frostbite on his hands, so he can’t take care of the team. His luck on the trail was definitely lacking this year and I’m sure he is regretting his decision to run.

He has been warned twice that the trail doesn’t like him, so he made the only rational decision.

It looks like Neff went into full survival mode and dug a snow cave, the only sensible thing to do. It stays at 32° in a snow cave, which is very comfortable when you are dressed for -50°. Been there and done that, and don’t want to do it again.

The Air Force had facilities out beyond Mile 101 on the Steese Highway, and it was never a road you took unless you absolutely had to in the winter. It’s like a lot of the two-lane roads through the secondary passes in the Sierra Nevadas. About half the time when it was plowed, the plows would take out the guard rails.

]]> By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2011/02/14/yukon-quest-2011-%e2%80%93-day-10/comment-page-1/#comment-55414 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:26:26 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=19044#comment-55414 Wise man, Hans. He’s won the race before. He’s got nothing to prove. He and the pups are better off staying warm than trying to summit in that kind of weather. I just hope nobody manages to get irretrievably lost/dead in the blizzard conditions…

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