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Yukon musher Jean-Denis Britten scratched from the Quest Monday afternoon at Pelly Crossing, making him the first to drop out of the race so far. The remaining mushers are checked in at or have left the Stepping Stone hospitality point or the Pelly Crossing checkpoint.ĭawson City is 323 kilometres farther along the trail from Pelly Crossing. High polish stainless bolsters, African palm wood and dyed turquoise. Mushers' dog handlers and team members, as well as film crews and veterinarians, are beginning to trickle into Dawson on Tuesday, in anticipation of the impending arrivals.Ī total of 28 teams are still in the Yukon Quest since it began from Whitehorse Saturday morning. This custom Chester Deubel drop point hunter knife from Alabama Damascus wave pattern.

Little is expected to arrive in Dawson sometime Tuesday evening, in what has shaped up so far to be one of the fastest-moving Yukon Quests on record. Teams leaving Scroggie Creek now have to run 160 kilometres to Dawson, where they will take a mandatory 36-hour layover to rest up before they can continue through the Alaska half of the race. Scroggie Creek is the last stop before Dawson City, the halfway mark in the 1,600-kilometre northern sled dog race from Whitehorse to Fairbanks, Alaska. Four-time Iditarod champ Martin Buser of Big Lake, Alaska, and Warren Palfrey of Yellowknife are stil at the Scroggie Creek point, according to the race's website.

Sebastian Schnuelle of Whitehorse, now in second place.Īlso en route to Dawson Tuesday is Brent Sass of Fairbanks, Alaska.

Little was first to pass through Scroggie Creek, bound for Dawson City, at 4 a.m. Little, a 45-year-old veteran musher from Kasilof, Alaska, took the lead away from William Kleedehn of Carcross, Yukon, early Tuesday morning at the Scroggie Creek dog drop point. an automatic knife with a stainless steel, 3.7, drop-point blade and wood handles. To complement such an exceptional blade, we have equipped the AK-47® with our Ultra Lock® locking mechanism. The thumb plate has a dual purpose, it allows the knife to be drawn and quickly opened by snagging it on the edge of a pocket or it can be used like a conventional thumb stud for easy one-handed opening.Five mushers from the Yukon were in hot pursuit of Alaskan Jon Little in the Yukon Quest on Tuesday, with all five teams vying to be the first to arrive at the 1,600-kilometre sled-dog race's halfway point in Dawson City. Read more Quick View MICROTECH 157-10 EXOCET 269 US Good condition 17 Add to cart Quick View 46 Black DLC Drop Point Plain Blade, Black Aluminum. The aluminum handled version comes with a bead blast finish and the G-10 version comes with a black Tuff-Ex coated blade. They're made from Japanese AUS 8A Stainless steel, then vacuum heat treated, and sub zero quenched to make them as tough. The hollow ground blades are honed by hand until they reach levels of sharpness only seen on a surgeon's scalpel. Made of Grivory®, the pommel features two lanyard holes, and can serve as a "less than lethal" percussion tool in a self-defense situation.

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