After the 2024 Yukon 1000 last year I spent some time writing about the experience. It was a big experience and the first draft ran to almost 28,000 words before I lost momentum.

With some encouragement from Liz Swanton who is without a doubt my most dedicated supporter when it comes to spinning a yarn, I’ve decided to dive back into the chronicles of a team called “Your Other Left” in the 2024 Yukon 1000 Race.

It’s unfinished in some respects, I wrote it as much for when I’m old and sloshing cocoa on my slippers as Peter Klages would say, but there’s enough of a yarn that I think I can send it out into the world as a serialised novella.

I’m not going to apologise for the inaccuracies. Frankly it’s all a blur and I was happy to remember my own name by day 6, but I’ll own the mistakes, and maybe a few aspects which have been embellished, exaggerated, or reframed to make it sound like I enjoyed it.

So without further pontification, I give you the 2024 Yukon 1000 from the perspective of the team who intentially finished nearly last, but generally had enough of a good time that we’re going back in 2025.

1. Prologue: non sumet nullus pro responso
2. YRQ cut short
3. Arrival in Whitehorse
4. Day 1 – Whitehorse – Lake Laberge – Big Eddy Woodyard
5. Day 2 – Carmacks – Five Fingers – Minto
6. Day 3 – Fort Selkirk – Fires – Smoke – White River – Stuart River
7. Day 4 – Uncharted Territory – Checkpoint at Dawson – Forty Mile
8. Day 5 – US Border – Eagle Village – Slavens Roadhouse
9. Day 6 – Mist – Twisters – The Flats – Madness – Fort Yukon
10. Day 7 – Fort Yukon – Wind – Waves – Beaver – Bear
11. Day 8 – Beaver – Stevens – Dalton – Closure