Check out Wednesday’s article on our ‘revamped’ Yukon Brewing Twister Race series. Also, has a few good photos with it.
http://www.whitehorsestar.com/archive/story/dpsay-season-off-to-a-strong-start/
The organizers of “Oscars Electric Race Day” in DPSAY’s “Yukon Brewing Twister Race Series” where more than happy with last Sundays turn-out. Ten mushers competed in the sled category and eight skijorer harnessed their dogs to run the race at William Kleedehns “Limp a long kennel” near Carcross. It was the first time for the Yukon Quest veteran to host a race at his home location. Gaetan Pierrard and Pierre Duc helped him to prepare a great 10 mile trail. Maren Bradley volunteered to be the Race Marshal and Mike Simon was responsible for the timing.
Winner in the sled class was Tagish sprint musher Dave Johnson with a time of 32:50 followed by Armin Johnson with 40:25. Alexandra Rochat finished 3rd with a time of 40:31.
Jonathan Lucas was the winner in the skijoring category with a time of 36:58. Darryl Sheepway was 2nd with 40:09 and Stefan Wackerhagen came in 3rd place with a time of 41:49.
In the kids category Katharina Wirth started her team on the 2 mile trail and finished with a time of 7:05min. She trains her husky team to participate in the Arctic Winter Games 2012 in Whitehorse.
The all new recreational class attracted 4 skijorer to run up to 2 dogs. This class substitutes the former pet dog class, but allows more dogs per participant and is not limited to some breeds. Any dog can run in this class, and retired sled dogs or puppies are just as welcome.
DPSAY would like to thank all sponsors. Oscars Electric Ltd. donated the purse money. Merchandize prizes got sponsored by Coast Mountain Sports, Up North Adventures, Aurora booties, Baked, Yukon Brewing and the Yukon Quest.
To see the full results follow the link on our website: http://dpsay.wordpress.com/twister-races/oscars-electric-race-day-dec-11-2011/
I just got a trail update from Gaetan and William. It sounds like the trail is wide and flat and easy. Thanks to the warm waether one should expect a fast trail with icy patches. Unfortunately the lake has some overlow and depending on the conditions on the race day we may shorten the race to 8 Miles to avoid the overflow entirely. See you on Sunday!
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Another exciting event in DPSAY’s Yukon Brewing Twister Race Series will take place at William Kleedehn’s “Limp-a-long-Kennel” on December 11th, 2011. Registration and pre-race meeting will be held at 10 am at Kleedehn City (South Klondike Highway Km 120). We will update the DPSAY blog within the next few days with more detailed directions to this
location.
The main races will allow 4-8 dogs in the sled category and 1-4 dogs for skijor teams on a 10 mile trail. Sleds and Skijor teams will be timed separately but share the trail.
The new recreational class will be an (almost) anything goes event: competitors can ski, run, sled, kick sled, have dogs pull a toboggan, or whatever just as long as the competitor safely completes the 2.5 mile trail as marked with their dog(s) and has fun. The dog limit for the
Recreational Class will be 1 – 2 Dogs. This class allows any breed of dogs!
The kids race will be held on the same 2.5 mile loop. Kids can run up to 4 dogs on their sled or skijor with 1 dog.
There will be no cash prizes for the Recreational class and in the kids race. Merchandise prizes only!
If you have any questions please contact Fabian at (867) 335-2920 or fabian@weitewege.de
Happy trails!
