All the remedial SCUM were classical skiing.

From Mike Mathers:

“I went to the Sonot blog site and enjoyed the depiction of my fall as Bugs Bunny,  I left unaware how to post to it other than a reply to someone’s comments.  My time was 56 flat.” 

From Frank Soos:

“my time was 1:01.47

wayward scum”

From Jerome Jackson:

“Sorry. Did not time.  Finished about 25 secs behind Big Frank.”

No problem. So your time will be 1:02.12 based upon Frank’s result.

From Dan Johnson:

“I had to rush home and then here to the Carlson Center. Still here. My time was 60 minutes 45 seconds.”

Thank you, Dan for spending your Wednesday giving Fairbanks residents their COVID-19 vaccine.

Robert Hannon submitted his 10 km virtual Sonot Kkaazoot result with just the time and his documentation. However, had our SCUM photographer been there, Robert would have been the best dressed skier.

Time: 1:03:26

However, Robert must have taken some shortcuts on the course as his GPS shows a 5.82 mile outdoor walk.

A day after seen posing in a 34th annual Denali State Bank Sonot Kkaazoot facemask, Carl Hemming (known among the SCUM as the Oosik Poser), took off ahead of the gang this morning. Carl’s official 10 km time was 1:04.

Carl wrote: “Great fun on the trails w/scum.”

Carl was wearing his Oosik bufff during his 10 km virtual Sonot Kkaazoot. He wanted Bad Bob to know that the ear slots on his Sonot Kkaazoot face mask don’t work for him.

A group of 9 SCUM, who had been COVID-19 vaccinated, gathered to ski the Denali State Bank Virtual Sonot Kkaazoot 10 km course this morning (or to improve upon their previous times). It was about 5 deg F in the stadium when we started with skies clearing as we skied.

As the only female and oldest skier among those skiing today, I had the distinction of being the red lantern, but the SCUM were still in the finish area when I fnished with a time of 1:07:12, which included the time of getting mitts on and off to push my watch’s buttons.

Here is my Polar GPS trace than is slightly shorter than that of Garmin watches.The 30 km and 50 km virtual Sonot courses remain.

Now just the 30 and 50 km courses remain.

Bad Bob writes:

“Got the 10km out of the way this afternoon.  ½” of fresh cold slow snow blanketed Birch Hill, but I SKATED anyway…only my second race of this season, my first was the Skiathon.  My time….47:47, and that was with MUCH EFFORT!  And PAIN, as I have not been skating much at all.  So, just the 30 and 50k to go.  I will wait for faster snow for those two.  I measured the SONOT KKAAZOOT 10k on my Garmin GPS @ 10.08 kilometers…pretty close.  Ended up double poling quite a bit.  Most definitely the hardest effort this season. 

We also received the face masks today.  I’ve given out about 30 of them already!  I’ll be working out some method of distribution.”

Congratulations, Bad Bob! You’re our first skate skier and the fastest submitted time (so far) for the virtual 10 km Denali State Bank Sonot Kkaazoot.