A well deserved day off from direct competition. No CHECKPOINTS or TSD regularities today and no ice slaloms. But we do have to make it to Eagle Plains and then Inuvik to not garner penalty points. But today that was easy as we had SUMMER-LIKE weather with atemp of 34 degrees at the Arctic Circle itself. I think Al Gore is right. It is not cold up here and a dramatic lack of snow compared to other years.
The locals tell me that is was near 60 below just some 9 days ago, but it seemed more like spring with bright sunshine outside.
We saw a mink cross the road today, but a distinct lack of animals (except a few stubborn ptarmagin that just stand in the road as we whiz past)
Lunch was at the halfway point of Eagle Plains where we will stay tomorrow after our trek up the ice road (MacKenzie River) to Tuktoyaktuk.
Pix to follow.
Oh, we did gain points on every other eam yesterday. We rocked in the TSD section (scored a 6 when the best guys did 4 with damn car #1 getting a 2). But we put 6 or 7 seconds on all those guys on the ice race so we now move into 5th overall and not too far from Team D Car #4 for 4th overall. We still lead our class by a good margin. No more competitive sections until we get back to Whitehorse..
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