A Day at the Races...Chatanika Style

We woke up to blue skies today and headed out with friends to watch the races at Chatanika - an old mining town about 30 miles N.E. of Fairbanks. The races are unconventional as you'll see, but we had fun hiking, playing, watching, and even participating in the human bowling contest.

The view out from the Steese Highway was spectacular today



Tawna is hoping to audition for the next Mutant Ninja Turtle Movie soon...



Chatanika is famous for its outhouse race - 0.8 miles run flat out while pushing a loaded outhouse



Costumes are essential, but let's just say you shouldn't fall behind in this kind of race --- We're putting it down to a rapid transition out of the outhouse at the start!



Tawna allowed me to use her as a bowling ball in the human bowling -- check out Ben and Deas blog for a picture of that!