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18:50 local time 14th February

David Berridge came into Carmacks CP at 16:58. He is doing fine. "I must apologize to you", David said when he came in. "I have said some nasty things to you on the way here. It was a tough one ..." he added - now with a smile on his face.

Just as I was heading to the Carmacks Recreation Centre to make updates I saw Frank Janssens come off the river. He seemed tired but okay. By now he will be resting at the checkpoint.

Many new photographs online

There are now many new photographs in the Yukon gallery ( www.arcticultra.de ). The galleries have the names of the people who took the pictures. The ones that are called Day 1, Day 2 etc. were taken by RoberT or volunteers, too.
EMT and volunteer member of the YAU medical team, Eric Kocher, has now also become our chief filming officer ;-). Eric Kocher made a few more videos. So, thanks to him you can now also get some impressions by moving pictures. And a friend of Eric's has written something which I find makes up for a nice quote:

"As a runner and a psychologist, I must say these people need more than your medical attention. What kind of person (this is a rhetorical question) runs 460 miles over two weeks (that's 33 miles per day) in the snow with temperatures (according to the website) averaging around 20 below zero? And if you look under the race rules on the website, you'll see they are required to carry half a household on their backs the whole way ...".

By the way, once again all our volunteers and snowmobile guides are doing an awesome job. Thank you guys!