by Greg Lincoln
Kwethluk musher Raymond Alexie has efficiently defended his Bogus Creek 150 champion title, making this his second Bogus win in a row, congratulations to the Alexie household and Alexie Racing Kennel.
Alexie, age 20, mushed his 10 canine workforce throughout the end line at 9:03am in Bethel. His whole elapsed race time was 18 hours and three minutes. For his win he’ll take home $12,000. He has been profitable each race since final season, apart from this yr’s Kuskowim 300.
“I’m tired and sore,” he stated on the end – from kicking, operating, and poling after coming off the Gweek. His lead dogs are Apollo and Scotty.
Coming in second place was Pete Kaiser of Bethel. He completed the race with 9 dogs and a complete elapsed time of 18 hours and 48 minutes. The 2019 Iditarod Champion and 8-time Kuskokwim 300 champion might be competing on this yr’s Iditarod.
Third place musher and Bogus Creek 150 Rookie of the Year Darren George completed with 8 dogs and a time of 19 hours and 23 minutes.
Other Bogus Creek 150 rookies included Charlie Chingliak, Byron Pasitnak Jr., Kenneth Snyder, Sigurd Napoka, and Robert Charles Jr.
15 groups started the race in Bethel on Saturday, February 10th at 3pm with a mass begin to compete for the $75K race purse. Six previous Bogus Creek 150 champions took half within the race: Father Alexander Larson (2004), Pete Kaiser (2008), Richie Diehl (2021), Mike Williams Jr. (2006), and Jason Pavila (2019), and present winner Raymond Alexie (2023, 2024).
Teams mushed up the Kuskokwim to the Gweek River. Racers adopted the route utilized by 2024 K300 racers, touring upriver from Bethel on the Kuskokwim, then persevering with up the Gweek River. About 20 miles from the beginning, mushers left the Gweek for the overland route in the direction of Tuluksak. Due to harmful situations on Little Bogus Creek the path bypassed the village of Tuluksak and remained on the Kuskokwim till racers entered Big Bogus Creek. From there they adopted the conventional path to the Bogus Creek Checkpoint, the place they spent the obligatory 4 hour relaxation earlier than returning home on the identical path.
Mushers checked in to the Bogus checkpoint within the following order and time in hours/minutes:
Raymond Alexie, 6:33
Darren George, 6:34
Aaron Alexie, 6:43
Peter Kaiser, 6:50
Mike Jr Williams, 6:58
Sigurd Napoka, 7:01
Jason Pavila, 7:05
Alexander Larson, 7:21
Richie Diehl, 7:22
Robert Jr Charles 07:23
Isaac Underwood 07:26
Kenneth Snyder, 7:36
Byron Jr Pasitnak 07:46
Charlie Chingliak 07:54
Tory Fitzpatrick, 7:56
Mushers took a 4 hour layover on the Bogus Creek checkpoint upriver from Tuluksak. Once their obligatory 4 hours was up, they may go away the checkpoint and make their approach again all the way down to Bethel following the identical route.
Receiving the Red Lantern Award was 18 yr old Kenneth Snyder of Akiachak. He completed the race at 12:56pm on Sunday, February 11th2024. Musher Byron Pasitnak Jr.’s tracker stopped registering proper after coming off the Gweek River. Word got here that he is not going to be ending the race.
Race followers flocked to the Kuskokwim River to observe the beginning of the thrilling race and to cheer for the mushers. Photographers, reporters, race officers and volunteers, have been buzzing with exercise throughout the mushers and their pit crews who have been busy getting their groups attached and able to go. The climate was within the gentle 20s. Good job to all of the groups and mushers!
2024 Bogus Creek 150 Race Results
February 11, 2024 in Bethel, AK
Place/Musher # of Dogs Total Elapsed Time
1 Raymond Alexie 10 18:03:00
2 Peter Kaiser 9 18:48:00
3 Darren George 8 19:23:00
4 Richie Diehl 9 19:48:20
5 Aaron Alexie 8 19:49:55
6 Mike Williams Jr. 10 19:52:11
7 Jason Pavila 9 20:00:00
8 Sigurd Napoka 9 20:31:00
9 Robert Charles Jr. 8 20:40:13
10 Alexander Larson 10 20:40:34
11 Isaac Underwood 7 20:55:00
12 Tory Fitzpatrick 8 21:34:00
13 Charlie Chingliak 8 21:50:00
14 Kenneth Snyder 9 21:56:00
15 Byron Pasitnak Jr. 10 Scratched
Up subsequent in Kuskokwim canine mushing would be the February 50 Doubles scheduled for Feb. twenty fourth.
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