{"id":37,"date":"2007-02-12T18:31:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T03:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/yukon-questing\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T22:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:38:49","slug":"yukon-questing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Yukon Questing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We caught the ferry up to Skagway and then drove up to Whitehorse for the start of the Yukon Quest.  I think it is amazing the great opportunities in Southeast, and we try to take advantage of as many as we can&#8211;I&#8217;m glad we were able to talk a few UAS students into ditching classes (mostly my classes that I canceled anyway!) to head up for the start of the Quest.  Torsten liked the dogs, but really loved the Whitehorse Aquatic Center.  Here&#8217;s a few photos from the start of the race.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200702yukonquest\/imgs\/IMG_2093_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"299\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Sled dog, ready to go!\" title=\"Sled dog, ready to go!\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200702yukonquest\/imgs\/IMG_2093_2.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200702yukonquest\/imgs\/IMG_2103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"382\" height=\"289\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200702yukonquest\/imgs\/IMG_2103.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Torsten did great all bundled up and enjoyed the start:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200702yukonquest\/imgs\/IMG_2094.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"408\" height=\"308\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200702yukonquest\/imgs\/IMG_2094.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200702yukonquest\/imgs\/IMG_2114_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"318\" src=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200702yukonquest\/imgs\/IMG_2114_2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The whole <a href=\"http:\/\/talus-and-heavner.com\/im\/gallery\/2007\/200702yukonquest\/\">Yukon Quest start photo gallery<\/a> is available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We caught the ferry up to Skagway and then drove up to Whitehorse for the start of the Yukon Quest. I think it is amazing the great opportunities in Southeast, and we try to take advantage of as many as we can&#8211;I&#8217;m glad we were able to talk a few UAS students into ditching classes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/?p=37\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yukon Questing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-southeastalaska","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Tpo-B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}