Busted Axle Road Chapter 41
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| Time frame | February, 1988 |
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Location
- Spearfish Lake
- Winter Festival
- On the trail behind the dogs
- Washington, DC
- The Warsaw Fire Department hall, the halfway and turnaround point
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Summary
Ryan Clark announces the start of the first Little Iditarod dog sled race with Tiffany giving Mike strict instructions to look after the dogs. They start off as fast as possible, Mike's Beatle Hounds proving themselves the slightly faster team over a short distance.
Kirsten, Josh, Tiffany and Jackie help feed & water the dogs at the first stop, then Mike and Mark continue alone. All goes well until Mark has to stop to be sick.
Mike follows Mark to make sure he gets to Warsaw as there is nowhere for them to get off the trail.
At the membership meeting Heather has been elected as the new President of the Defenders of Gaea, and has got John elected as Vice-president & Treasurer, which he wasn't expecting.
After the meeting she explains that she needs John as someone she can trust to help her rebuild the Defenders, as she'll be out of action for a while since she is pregnant. John is taken aback but comes round to the idea of leaving Spearfish Lake.
He suggests they go to Las Vegas to get married, and incidentally, to catch a Jenny Easton show.
Josh & Jackie get to Warsaw to find that Fred Linder, the Fire Chief, and everyone else have made a big event out of it. Fred is thinking of getting his own team.
Mike and Mark arrive to quite a welcome, with plenty of help to picket the dogs, including Jim Horton who is managing the event.
Mike gets Mark checked out by the EMT, who finds that Mark has a temperature of 102 degrees F. The EMTs initial diagnosis is the influenza bug and says that Mark belongs home in bed. Josh volunteers to take Mark's place running the dogs as Jackie takes Mark home.
