January 29

Bill McCarty

Ruby to Whiskey Creek

Lead dog: Prince. Severe hour-long snow storm. Arrived at Whiskey Creek about 10:00 am Temperature −40 °F (−40 °C). Met by Edgar Nollner. 28 mi (45 km) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_.....um_run_to_Nome

As a tribute to my favorite movie of the event I will upload (as far as it is possible) something Balto-related each day of 2025. Here the gallery starts so you can see them all: https://www.deviantart.com/emberwol.....years-of-balto
“Dedicated to the indomitable spirit of the sled dogs that relayed antitoxin six hundred miles over rough ice, across treacherous waters, through Arctic blizzards from Nenana to the relief of stricken Nome in the winter of 1925.”
Read about the serum run here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1925_.....um_run_to_Nome