Fur Rondy sled dog races canceled due to poor trail conditions
The Fur Rendezvous Open World Championship sled
dog sprint races are the latest victim of warm weather that has
obliterated trail conditions around Southcentral Alaska and in
Anchorage, despite the work of volunteers.
Race officials
announced the decision to cancel the races Sunday. The races had been
scheduled to run in Anchorage from Feb. 27 to March 1, and 20 mushers
had signed up for the 2015 competition.
The decision was
especially wrenching, said Race Marshal Janet Clarke, because this
year's races were especially meaningful due to the Anchorage centennial
and because they offered a chance to honor the memory of legendary
sprint musher George Attla, who died earlier this month.
[snip] On Saturday, volunteers had been out on the
trails in driving rain, trying to cover areas of bare grass, dirt and
asphalt with snow. In some areas, asphalt was coated with ice. Just when
one section seemed shored up, another would fail.
“Yesterday all
of us were doing this in the rain. We simply lost all the ground we had
gotten,” Clarke said. “Our trail boss summed it up: We can fill in holes
but we can't fill in a whole 10 miles of trail.”
Psalm 22:27-28: “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. For the kingdom is the Lord's, and he ruleth among the nations.”
4 comments:
The world seems to be in turmoil. Weird weather patterns from one extreme to the other like it's in pain. I wouldn't call it global warming or climate change as things like this have happened before but it makes one wonder what the world knows that we don't.
Aw...I am so sorry. We have all your snow and no way to ship it where it belongs. I would be so happy to share if I could.
What threecollie said.
Goodness, we're covered in the stuff. :/
Preppy, Jesus refers to it as birth pangs (Matthew 24:8). The planet is just following God's timeline.
threecollie, thank you. This happened in 2006, too. They cancelled the Rondy sprints to save snow for the Iditarod start, downtown. But we'll take that offer!
Jenny, please please please send us all you can spare. :)
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