Boy, am I ever glad to be home.
CPAC was a lot of fun, made even more so by my wife’s decision to come along this year. It’s a chance to listen to some great speakers, but mostly, it’s a chance to share notes and compare techniques with colleagues, and to hang around with friends, and I’d note that the Venn diagram of those two groups is pretty much a circle.
Being back home, in Alaska, that’s even better. Cities are too crowded, too noisy, and they smell bad.
We came back to find our minimal snow layer still in place, and because of that, the Iditarod has officially moved its start to Fairbanks. Not enough snow, you see.
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will now start in Fairbanks, not Willow, due to a lack of snow, race officials announced Monday.
The last-minute change follows alarms raised by some mushers over the weekend who said stretches of…
