Iditarod (More) (Corrected)
There’s a lot of inside baseball sort of stuff in the Iditarod, as we can see from the overnight report from Rebecca (CEO of Snowhook, our team in the world’s greatest sled dog race). But first,...
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Here is another great overnight report from Rebecca, CEO of Snowhook Kennel, our team in the Iditarod. As of now, Snowhook seems to be in 22nd place (out of 78) which is pretty damn good! No point in...
View ArticleIditarod: A Special Post From Rebecca of Snowhook
(Cast of characters: Rebecca – CEO, Snowhook; AJ – musher; Melanie – a great person, Plunderer, and friend of this blog. The rest should be self-explanatory.) I could report about Team Snowhook having...
View ArticleMany Thanks To Rebecca
CEO of Snowhook. Here’s her overnight report on Snowhook and the Iditarod. (Manley Hot Springs sounds like a good winter stop-off place.) At the time of drafting this report, Team Snowhook is on their...
View ArticleForty Below
Here’s the overnight report from Rebecca, CEO of Showhook Kennel, our team in the greatest sled dog race on earth. Current temp here in the office is 65 above, just where we like it. Go Snowhook! Ten...
View ArticleThe Womens Correctional Institute and the Iditarod
A new wrinkle! Will we see Twig and Charlie in orange jump suits? Here’s the overnight report from Rebecca, CEO of Snowhook, our team in the Iditarod. Snowhook’s care for the members of the nation...
View ArticleRebecca’s Iditarod “Report”
Below is a conversation that may or may not have happened between Admin and me: “No post today,” I told him. Admin blinked. He stared. He blinked again. “Am I allowed to have a ‘No Post Today’ day?”...
View ArticleThe Unknown Unknowns (Updated)
The Iditarod is not bean bag. Here’s the overnight report from Rebecca, CEO of Snowhook, our team in the race. Many thanks, Rebecca! And below, the cover art for the next Chet and Bernie novel, coming...
View ArticleEnd in Sight
What an endurance test the Iditarod is – and for CEO’s, too! Here’s Rebecca, our Snowhook CEO: This could be another ‘No Post Today’ kind of a day. I am in Nome and my internet access is fairly...
View ArticleCongratulations Snowhook
Our team in the Iditarod reached Nome yesterday, passing under the famed burled arch. Congratulations to AJ (musher), Rebecca (CEO) and all those brave members of the nation within. Rebecca has taken...
View ArticleAnnual Snowhook Auction
Snowhook Kennel – our team in the Iditarod race and in so many other ways as well – is holding their Thanksgiving auction this weekend, starting at noon ET. Snowhook is two wonderfully humane humans –...
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And they’re off! We refer to the Iditarod, world’s greatest dog sled race, and of course we are backing Snowhook, the wonderfully humane kennel with a close association to this blog. Some of the...
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More from Rebecca, CEO of Snowhook, our team in the Iditarod: The 2014 race trail packed a wallop, a wallop the result of a low snow year. With the wounds from going 15 rounds with the 2014 trail...
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The Iditarod overnight report from Rebecca, CEO of Snowhook – our team! In a thousand mile race, what you hope for and what actually happens are two different things. For us, what we hope is that what...
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Overnight report from Snowhook’s Rebecca, CEO of our team in the world’s greatest dog sled race: ‘Taking the 24’ is musher shorthand for whether or not a team has completed their mandatory 24 hour...
View ArticleIditarod (4): The Chicken Skins Edition
On the Iditarod trail with Rebecca, CEO of Snowhook Kennel – our team! Since completing their 24 in McGrath, the team picked off the Takotna, Ophir and Cripple checkpoints. While the team trots on the...
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Inside baseball, Iditarod-wise from Snowhook’s CEO, Rebecca: When deciding which dogs to run in the race, many factors are considered. Who holds weight well, the age and health of the dog, who has the...
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First, this strange and unhappy story from last night on the trail. http://www.people.com/article/iditarod-attack-sled-dog-killed-by-drunk-snowmobile-driver Then, our report from the hard-working...
View ArticleIditarod (7): Memorial Edition
Many thanks to Rebecca, CEO of the Snowhook team, for this overnight Iditarod post. It will mean a lot to people here who knew Melanie. I often write these posts in the late hours when sleep will not...
View ArticleIditarod (8) Cool Place Name Edition
Overnight report from Snowhook’s Rebecca. (We have AJ running 40 out of 73 remaining. And a big congrats to Dallas Seavey, into Nome! And thus the winner, for any newbies out there.) There are many...
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