Start time: 4:36:00 Altitude: 136.2 metres Time Stopped: 6 hrs 58 mins My recollection of the river on day seven is that the low expanses of gravel were giving way to bigger islands and channels with steep banks, viewed from a low vantage point on … Continue reading 2024 Yukon 1000 – Day 7 – Thursday
Start time: 3:57:00 Yukon Time Altitude: 289.0 metres Time Stopped: 7 hrs 51 mins The new day started with no sign of the shoulder problem from the previous day. I’d woken in the middle of the night and lain there considering an evacuation strategy for … Continue reading 2024 Yukon 1000 – Day 5 – Tuesday
Start time: 5:29:00 Altitude: 455.7 metres ASL Time Stopped: 7 hrs 51 mins I’m not a morning person. I’m a night owl by nature. My working life has been spent in newspapers, working for organisations which only hit their stride in the afternoon and work … Continue reading 2024 Yukon 1000 – Day 3 – Sunday
Start time: 05:03:00 Altitude: 586.7 metres ASL Time Stopped: 6 hrs 46 mins We woke to the alarms we’d set on our watches at the start of day two. We’d set redundant alarms in case one didn’t go off, or we turned them off without … Continue reading 2024 Yukon 1000 – Day 2 – Saturday
Rivers of Dust and Ash 