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Published January 29, 2009, 12:00 AM

Beargrease 2009


Photo by Karin Smith

Site coordinator Linda Nervick delivers on her promise to make the Finland Beargrease checkpoint the most memorable in North America. With a portable sauna, Finnish robes, ten Finnish flags and blue and white candles hanging in the trees, it was. (L-R) Nervick, Dan Naff--co-coordinator, Chris Wall and Melissa Bloom. Wall and Bloom are members of the Siberian Husky Club of the Twin Cities, a group that comes up every year to help with the race.

  • Photo by Karin Smith<br /><br />Site coordinator Linda Nervick delivers on her promise to make the Finland Beargrease checkpoint the most memorable in North America. With a portable sauna, Finnish robes, ten Finnish flags and blue and white candles hanging in the trees, it was. (L-R) Nervick, Dan Naff--co-coordinator, Chris Wall and Melissa Bloom. Wall and Bloom are members of the Siberian Husky Club of the Twin Cities, a group that comes up every year to help with the race.
  • Photo by Karin Smith<br /><br />Beargrease fans at the Finland checkpoint-- Trish Harrison, Alexa--dressed for success-and Brandon Boman.
  • Photo by Karin Smith<br /><br />Beaver Bay checkpoint coordinator and Beaver Bay Volunteer Fire Department chief Jenny Mattson checks out the potbellied stove in the warming tent.
  • Photo by Steve/Sue Vankekerix--Two Harbors musher Colleen Wallin gives a hearty wave along the trail during this week's John Bearges Sled Dog Marathon.