The run from Nikolai to McGrath is an easy stretch but often boring as it stretches across multiple identical lakes and river bends. This is usually a good stretch to take at night when the weather is calm…
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Weather Report:
Mushers are advised that a severe storm with strong winds and snow will be making its way through McGrath and making the last leg of this run difficult to get through. Mushers are advised to leave immediately to make it into the McGrath checkpoint before the storm hits… Half of the cohorts take this advice and leave instantly, unfortunately cohorts 4, 5 and 6 do not. Wind and snow come roaring down the plain just before the checkpoint. The mushers desperately hold onto their belongings and the dogs yelp worriedly. One poor soul loses quite a few dogs in the storm and all of the cohorts had to reteam up as they enter into McGrath.
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The mushers start to set up camp around McGrath. This is usually a good place to take a full day of rest…. News starts to spread around from the various cohorts…
An explosion is heard from cohort 2…. Apparently someone had created some napalm and placed it around their camp… Not sure where the napalm came from, but hopefully no one was hurt too bad.
There is also a report of someone walking around in this disguise….
Not sure who would be using such a ridiculous disguise, but it sure does blend right in with the snow.
Another person is also walking around in disguise… this time in the form of a tree….
Why is everyone so afraid of being noticed? Silly mushers.
Another player is a bit braver and just moves her sleeping bag closer to another musher's camp… and then sleeps there…
There is also a report of someone digging out huge trenches around their camp…. This person is spotted quickly running back to the center of camp, when she gets there it appears as though she is trying to find something but can't seem to find it… she looks very frustrated.. I wonder what she is looking for… maybe it was important or just smelly.
Other than the storm that seems to have wrecked quite a bit of havoc for cohorts 4, 5 and 6 the only other shocking news is reported out of cohort 2…. Nohika has been found on the runway that is serviced by the freight planes… someone tied her up right in the path of the plane and she was run over… The daytime professor who was a musher in her free time has died… no longer able to mush or teach again.
It is Day 5…. The mushers begin to gather up their supplies and teams to head off onto the next leg of the race, thinking about who is responsible for nohika's death…..
The 17 mushers remaining....
Cohort 1
Devyn (16) - a kind-hearted musher able to patch up dogs on the trail
Kaydubs (14)
dyachei (13)
wildcatj (15)
Cohort 2
bold text (16)
orcagirl (15)
SOV (15) - a musher who just wanted to help everyone out
nohika (16) - a hard working musher
FH (15)
Cohort 3
equineconstant (16)
vetgirl4eva (14)
hedgiehog (15)
JamrOckin (16) - an evil musher
Cohort 4
wldlfstdnt (10)
Abney (15)
Cohort 5
Trematode (16) - the annoying musher
JJ (14)
FFM (15)
Nyanko (14)
Cohort 6
WTF (10)
Swingnsave (10)
Cuitlamiztli (13)
wolfspeaker (16) - an evil musher
PetPony (14) - a hard-working musher
Lynch Deadline is 9PM Central tonight. Also, pay careful attention to where you are now, quite a bit of movement has occurred and may impact who you can/were PMing with.
. She was the musher who lost dogs in the storm.
