SAT WOD Week 3

WoodSong WOD Week 3

pandemoniumNoise and pandemonium. Dog teams coming and going, judges and spectators all around. Small planes landing on the ice and taking off.

intenselyThey are intensely curious and study each thing I do as I feed and take care of the dogs.

Bliss

mandatory

indignantI have not rested well and the hallucinations start about midnight and I have the same man in the trench coat on the sled for a time, talking to me about educational grants, until I tell him to shut up and leave and he becomes indignant.

mellowThe buffalo does nothing to us, is very mellow. I hear later that another musher fell asleep in the Burn next to his sled--- his dogs were resting--- and when he woke up the buffalo was standing over him, straddling him, smelling the breath as it came out of his nostrils.

interiorDawn comes and we are in the interior of Alaska. So different, it is like another planet.

amiable

abatesThe wind abates, the sun comes out, the trail across is flat--- frozen seawater---and the dogs are well rested.

unfoundedSomebody froze his eyeballs because he didnt blink enough and is blind but is finishing the race anyway.Somebody froze his nose and it will have to be amputated. All of the rumors are virtually unfounded but they rip through the area as they did at Rainy Pass and I leave the checkpoint at dawn to head across the ice with some doubt.