solid snake is implicitly a committed musher and his line about “needing to be in anchorage this saturday” implies he was going for the fucking iditarod (the saturday of the week of the 28th 2005 was the iditarod) and they just like. never acknowledge that again. also given that the shadow moses incident took place over the course of about a day we cannot technically confirm that he did not kind of go “well that was fucked up” and run the iditarod