Thursday, March 11, 2021 Terry wants Booties

We have our little corner of the river back. Terry was excited to get down on the river. It was cold in the morning -27. Terry exclaimed many times this morning, “Man, it’s warming up so slowly.”

The last time l asked Siri what the temperature was, he replied, “You just asked me that.”

“I know, but Terry wants to hunt for booties.”

Twenty years ago, Terry skied from Unalakleet AK to Grayling on the Iditarod Trail heading the opposite direction of the mushers. It was almost a 300 mile ski trip pulling a sled. He was saying today what a leap of faith it was. Back then he had no tracker or any form of communication. The temperature was mostly in the minus double-digits. He was camping just off the river in any depression in the snow he could find. During his hours of trudgery he would talk to the passing mushers and pick up the doggie booties the dogs lost along the way. He collected a couple hundred.

Now he can ski, pick up booties and return to our cabin with a curl of smoke from the chimney. However, we must wait for the warm part of each day to go out.