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#gunflintmailrun

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Second was Bib #5, Matthew Schmidt from Sawtooth Racing, Grand Marais, MN. We enjoyed some hot drinks on the shore for a while, but the next teams were apparently far behind, so we took our restless huskies back around the bay in front of our cabin to follow a moose trail.

That's our cabin with the green roof and gray-green siding on the right of the third photo.

We caught one more team passing in view between a couple of islands on the way back, but we couldn't read the bib # from this distance.

A dogsled team racing by on a frozen lake, with large boulders and dense evergreen trees on the far shore. The driver, sled and rear two pairs of dog teams are visible, with the farthest teams out front out of frame. The dogs are running happily along. The driver's bib is barely visible enough to see #5 on it.
A dog sled team is visible far in the distance across a wide frozen lake. This is another ten-dog team, and the driver has a two-part sled with a seat allowing them to rest their legs as the dogs pull.
A human, Jeff, pauses in the deep snow on the edge of an island in the middle of a frozen lake. He has a husky attached to his belt by a flexible line, and another husky stands in front of him, attached to the person taking the photo. Jeff has a black puffy winter jacket, and a camera slung over his shoulder with a long lens. He's looking back over his left shoulder, watching for dog sled teams that might be passing by behind the photographer, his goggles perched up on his forehead. There is a cabin tucked away in the trees on the far side of the lake on the right of the picture, with tall windows looking out over the lake.
A distant dog sled team approaches from across a frozen lake. In the foreground, a couple of dead cedar trunks lean out at a nearly horizontal angle from shore, framing the dogsled team on the right side of the image.
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Gunflint Mail Run is on today! We shuffled out with our huskies and our Hok skis on Poplar Lake to watch the first teams return on the first leg of the race from a safe distance on the shore of an island near the race track.

Here is Bib #8, Rita Wehseler of Stoney Creek Sled Dogs from Tofte, MN, first back on Poplar Lake.*

* We presume they're first! We had been out for a while and hadn't seen anyone else before. This race doesn't have trackers and isn't posting live to their website. gunflintmailrun.com

[Edited to fix typo in hashtags]

A ten-dog sled team races across a frozen lake, from right to left. The driver has a big furry hood and bib number 8 clearly visible. The dogs are running hard, tongues out, having a great time. A single orange poll stuck in the snow marks the trail. White cedar and other evergreens lean out over the far shore of the frozen lake.
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