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Trek Over the Top 2017 snowmobilers arriving on Front Street, passing the S.S. Keno on the Upper Dyke Trail

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Second Avenue is generally lined with snow machines during the Trek Over the Top weekend

The 25th annual Trek Over the Top snowmobile race will arrive in Dawson City on March 8 and return to its starting point in Tok, Alaska, on March 11. The event has been organized on the Dawson end by the Klondike Visitors Association (KVA) for the last seven years, and this is the second year that the Alaska side has been controlled by the Tok Chamber of Commerce.

Paul Robitaille, marketing manager for the KVA, credits the new Tok organizers, who took over in Alaska from the Alaska Trail Blazers, for being much more aggressive in their promotion of this event. By the end of January there were already 200 riders registered.

He also notes that the new promoters have attracted a new generation of riders to an event that used to be made up of people who had been running the route for 15 to 20 years.

It’s still a far cry from the event’s heyday, prior to the 9-11 terrorists’ attacks, when there were three 200-rider weekends between mid-February and mid-March.

Numbers are on the increase, but there still aren’t enough people registered to cause the organizers to move to a second week of Trek.

This was a possibility that was discussed after last year’s event. Still, it’s a very healthy number of visitors for Dawson to see in the middle of the winter, coming very nicely after the Yukon Quest busyness and before the Klondike’s Thaw De Gras carnival and the Percy DeWolfe Mail Run to Eagle and back.

Robitaille says one of the reasons for not moving to two weeks this year was that the KVA is leery of volunteer burn-out. It takes a lot of volunteer time to make these events work, and one of the lead groups locally is the Dawson Sled Dawgs. They are planning for the popular Sled Drop – from a helicopter – and organize the Poker Run through the gold fields.

Registration for the Trek Over the Top is through the Tok Chamber website, which advertises the USD$599/person weekend as including:

• 6 meals: Breakfast in Tok before departure, two luncheons in Dawson City, two banquet dinners at Diamond Tooth Gertie’s in Dawson City, and dinner in Tok upon return.

• Three Nights lodging in Dawson

• Gasoline fill-up 75 miles from Tok in Chicken, each way

• Nightly can-can and gambling at Diamond Tooth Gertie’s

• Chance to win door prizes

• Entry into the Poker Run and chances to win cash and prizes

• Burlesque shows and the Snowshoe Shufflers

There is an issue with the dinners at Gertie’s, which can serve a maximum of 160 people. Robitaille says that some people normally do choose to eat elsewhere at least once, so the package provides restaurant vouchers for those who want to do that.

The trip is a 200 mile (322 km) ride on a groomed trail from Tok to Dawson and back, over the Taylor/Top of the World Highway, and across the Yukon and Klondike rivers via the unofficial ice bridge that locals here have fashioned to make up for the lack of an officially sanctioned crossing. Visitors are used to this from last year.

We've all done it. Signed up for a poker run, get three cards in and have a crap hand and lose all enthusiasm for the remainder of the ride.

Now, honestly if you sign up for a charity poker run with the expectation of winning and coming out ahead, then you're probably doing it for the wrong reason. But, from a competitive spirit kind of thing, we all hate to lose and it's even worse when halfway through the game you know there's no way you can win.

That's why we like a slight variation on this old standard..the POKER CHIP RUN.

What makes this game better than a standard 5 card poker run is NOBODY has a clue if they have a good hand or a bad hand until they return to the starting point.

That helps you (as the event organizer) in several ways. The first is the majority of your participants will enjoy the event all the way through, you'll ensure that almost everyone will return to the start (instead of dropping out halfway) and the old 'I don't know how to play poker' excuse some people use for not attending your event.

How it works

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The poker chip run is the simplest run you can set up. Here's what you need to do.

1. Decide on the number of stops you will have. Typically you can have as many as 5 or as few as three. If you're short on volunteers to man your stops, then we recommend having only 1 additional stop someone along the route. This gives you 3 draws from the poker chip bag. One when they register and before they leave, one at the stop out on the route, and one when they return to the starting point.

Get a set of generic poker chips, or contact Custom Products Plus (478-299-4601) for custom printed chips.

Divide the chips into equal numbers in a opaque bag so your participants can't see which color they're getting.

At each stop have your participants draw out 3 chips. Then note the colors drawn on their registration sheet.

That's it. Pretty simple huh?

Oh yea, once everyone leaves for the run, or (preferably) once everyone is back in and all the sheets have been returned, stage a public drawing where you put 1 chip of each color in the bag and have a volunteer reach into the bag and blindly draw out a chip. The first chip drawn is worth 20 points, the second chip is worth 10 points and the third chip is worth 5 points.

For example, if the first chip drawn is red, then every red chip drawn on the ride is worth 20 points. If the second chip is white then all the white chips are worth 10 points and the blue chips were worth 5 points.

The beauty of this is that because the value of the chips wasn't established until AFTER the ride concluded, no one knew if they had a good hand or not. They could've had all blue chips, or all red chips or all white chips and they either won big, or was a big loser!

Just make sure the person blind drawing the chips has no way to tell which color is which when they're in the bag and that person doesn't know anything about the participants scores or who has what colors on their sheets.

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But if it's a blind draw, it's still pretty hard for anyone to cheat with this system.

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If you have questions, or need more info, call us at Biker Nation, 478-268-7528 and we'll be happy to answer any questions about this system. We've used this dozens of times and it works great!