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Buzz Brags

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

The Buzz Lightyear toy/action figure has a long Alcan history. Not many toys are made like Buzz any more!

The pirate (known variously as Captain Arrr, Three Finger Pete, or Blackbeard) met his demise in the ice road incident where he was severed at the torso and lost his cutlass and pistol.

You have Qs, We have As

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Dad Comden asked about the Saab’s encounter with a snowbank on the Tuk ice road. to see what we’ve done so far and keep up with any new goodies.

A full week of rally

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

We’re winding up our seventh day of Alcan fun here in Whitehorse, on the southward leg of the event. Dan Comden and Hans Adomeit of TeamD have 52 points.

Scores are also affected by slalom times, where cars are competing in both studded and unstudded tire classes. A few days ago Gordon Ryall posted the hottest lap overall in the studded category and I can’t yet tell if it was Jim Elder or Ohio Knox who posted the quickest unstudded lap.

It’s late, so any scoring errors are probably my typos or inability to properly read the score sheet handed out tonight. Tomorrow has us running an early morning TSD (scored) section before heading out to the lake for another ice slalom. After that fun we’ll be heading down the Alaska highway where we’ll overnight at Liard River.

Some Alcan numbers

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Here are some Saab-specific stats, that’s protected information

TeamD members with grins on their faces: 8 (Even Steve,

A brief intermission

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Today we head up the ice road to Tuktoyaktuk (Tuk), .