I would draw you a big heart, but I don t know how to draw. Guess I need to go back to the K-9 University of Alaska and take some postgraduate courses. The other day, I was telling you about the straw drop that the volunteers were working on. Well yesterday and today they have been getting the people food for the trail volunteers ready for shipment.
Volunteers write the name of the checkpoint on the boxes so it can be easily seen.
Before reaching this point, however, cases and cases of food are opened and divided between the checkpoints depending on the expected number of volunteers that will eat there for the expected amount of time. Pat Owen, a volunteer who flew down from Nome to do the people food drop, is taking supplies to another area to be packed up. They use those big trolleys to move the tons of food around. Mike Owen takes a load of food headed to the McGrath checkpoint to the shipping area. McGrath is what is known as a hub .