Iditarod 2007, March 12th - 10th (Set 1)

Here's Kylie on the plane from PDX to ANC waiting for people to board. This trip, it seemed like Alaska Airlines was prematurely boarding passengers relative to their ETD. Kylie was in good spirits on the way up, so no real complaints. We took a red-eye flight to Anchorage. which got us in at about 1AM Anchorage time. Then we had the luxury of camping at the airport until 5:30AM when our next flight boarded.

Here we are in Nome on the frozen over Bering Sea. Kylie in tow in our new REI Piggyback backpack. The first musher still hadn't arrived yet at this point.

The Carlson family in the Nome forest. There are no pine trees this far North. But people still get Christmas trees, and when they're done with them, they plant them in the ice and create the "Nome forest". When the spring breakup of the ice occurs, these trees go out to sea.

This is the home of Chris and Lloyd Perrigo, our second family in Nome, AK. They have the luxury of being on Front Street and having ocean front property. Great for Iditarod and scoping out the mushers as they approach (bad when the storms get bad and breach the seawall). The rear of the house is South Facing. So with all the sun, the house was getting suitably warmed up. Daylight from ~9AM - 9PM. We had some house guests while we were visiting. Mary and her brother Scott Helwig. I believe the guys on the balcony are Scott, Jamie Saghafi, and myself.