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Jessica Simons writes:

Race Update, Feb. 19th

It’s minus 34° C at Pelly Farms, but intrepid adventurers Joachim Rintsch and Tom Wolter-Roessler hit the trail at 10:15. Pearse Allen and Klaus Schweinberger followed half and hour later. Eighty miles away, bush camp hospitality awaits them at Scroggie Creek. In between the only human contact they can expect are sporadic visits by our snowmobile crew Gary Rusnik, Mike Simon and Pete Nielson on the trail to maintain safety.

Mike’s initial trail report has smooth running for the first 40 miles, but after that is a string of glaciers with steep grade. The Quest has clearly marked each location with crossed stakes, and although no single ice field is over one kilometer, several are hundreds of meters wide and pose a serious hazard.

While the intrepid adventurers carry on northbound, all the 300 mile competitors are off the trail. Denmark’s Palle Andersen and Torben Birch could put their feet up at 08:25. At 11:00 a.m. a tired but determined Sean Brown earned the red lantern. After being defeated by the trail in 2005 and 2006, and overcoming injury this year, a special congratulation to him and respect to all the finishers of this year’s Yukon Arctic Ultra 300.