Despite outpacing the competition, Bethel's Pete Kaiser said this year's Bogus Creek 150 'felt like a slow-motion race.” Heavy snow created a soft, punchy trail. And a fierce headwind forced many mushers to crouch on their sleds as they raced upriver.
Pete Kaiser of Bethel swept the Kuskokwim mid-distance races this season. just a few weeks prior, but he’s not done chasing gold this season.Pete Kaiser receives a handwoven flat basket made by Kelly Lincoln after winning the 2022 Bogus Creek 150 sled dog race.
More snow fell as the top racers reached the turnaround checkpoint. And freezing rain began falling minutes before Kaiser arrived at the finish.Isaac Underwood races up the Kuskokwim River. Kaiser hadn’t planned to run the Bogus this year. He added his name to the roster a couple days before the start on Saturday, after days of heavy snow.
“Hard, icy, fast trails are maybe more likely to injure a dog, and with Iditarod being so close, there’s not a lot of recovery time,” he said. “This slower trail is like something you might see on Iditarod.”Kaiser reached the halfway point in 7 hours and 42 minutes. After a mandatory four-hour layover, he reduced that time on the way back to 7 hours and 27 minutes. He attributed the extra speed to “fresh dogs” coming out of the checkpoint and “a firmer trail after all the teams had gone over it.
“I just hop on and go,” he said, laughing at the finish. “Lewis’s dogs are good. They did good for me.” “Pete is too fast for me. I’m happy for him, he did a good job,” Phillip said, smiling behind his glasses.
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