Start Time: 10/07/2025 07:25:00 Start Location: 60°43’1.4160″N 135°2’48.8040″W (Whitehorse, YT) Race Director Jon Frith lined the teams up across the parking area for his final words and the traditional blessing from Glenn Nolan. As the clock ticked towards 7:25, Jon’s voice rose “three, two, one, … Continue reading 2025 Yukon 1000 – Day 1 – Thursday
The plan for day one is simple. Get through Lake Laberge and as far down the river beyond it as you can in a short day, with 15-16 hours of paddling time available after the 7:30 start. [note: there was a lot of activity and … Continue reading 2024 Yukon 1000 – Day 1 – Friday
With limited annual leave available, we’d decided to fly into Whitehorse on the Monday before the race (Friday) and leave ourselves with some buffer days in Fairbanks at the other end, in case things went wrong. Thursday was blocked out for the race briefing and … Continue reading Arrival in Whitehorse
June 2024 When news started breaking that the Yukon River Quest had been cut short at Carmacks due to wildfires our worst fears were being realised. We were days away from flying out to Whitehorse and the possibility was looming that the 1000 might be … Continue reading Yukon River Quest Cut Short
July 2023 Outside close friends, we haven’t spoken much about our withdrawal from the 2023 Yukon 1000. At the end of a strong day one, we thought we were pretty well placed based on our mental tally of how many boats we had in front of … Continue reading Prologue – Non sumet nullus pro responso
This is the GPS track used in the 2019 Yukon River Quest by Team 11 – Dawsons to Dawson. The track was built using SPOT tracking data aggregated into a optimised track. The SPOT data was sourced from the YRQ tracking website, where the source … Continue reading Yukon River Quest 2019 Plan
In June 2019 Kate and Steve Dawson entered the 700km Yukon River Quest for the first time.
Mapping data assembled from the SPOT tracking locations of teams competing in the 2019 Yukon River Quest.
Rivers of Dust and Ash 