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Update:02/14/08

Julie Estey’s many fans and friends want to know how the rookie musher is faring after scratching at the isolated Slaven’s Cabin late Wednesday afternoon with a bum knee and 11 dogs.

Race Judge Patty Imus reports that Estey’s knee was splinted and iced Tuesday evening when she arrived with the injury. “It was not as swollen this morning,” she said from Eagle Checkpoint late Wednesday night, “but it didn’t afford her the ability to drive a sled over the ice.”

Estey will overnight at Slaven’s Cabin and fly to Eagle in the morning with six of her dogs. The Yukon Quest will fly the other five dogs that Estey dropped at Slaven’s to Dawson City, YT, the half-way point of the race. Estey will be responsible for arranging her travel, and the transportation of her six dogs, out of Eagle.

Estey’s husband and dog handler Todd brought got word of his wife’s predicament during the drive from Circle City to Dawson City. He is expected to arrive sometime Thursday with the dog truck and will care for the five dropped dogs. 

02/13/08: Yukon Quest Officials in Eagle received a satellite phone call from Slaven's Dog Drop telling them that rookie Yukon Quest musher Julie Estey had decided to scratch from the race. Julie Estey, a local Fairbanks fan favorite and the former Executive Director of the Alaska Yukon Quest office, had hoped to complete her first Yukon Quest as a participant in 2008, but needed to drop several of her dogs after reaching Slaven’s Cabin, which undoubtedly led to her decision to end her race at that location.. Estey is the seventh musher to scratch from this year's race so far, leaving just 16 teams still in the running.

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