2007 Yukon River Quest
Team Biographies
Team #: 02
Team Name:
Team Quest for Life
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Kieran O'Kane
Reigate, Surrey, UK
30
male
Race Goals:
To finish in one piece and raise a lot of money for the Lymphoma Association in the UK.
Bio: No race experience: plenty of expeditions around the British Isles.
Team #: 03
Team Name:
Alberta River Runners
Class: Tandem Kayak - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Darrell Wiebe
Jennifer Allen
Calgary, AB, Canada
Calgary, AB, Canada
33
39
male
female
Race Goals:
To win the Mixed Tandem Class.
Have fun, paddle hard, and finish.
Bio: No marathon experience, but we have competed in Dragon boat, Downriver, and Solo Kayak events: class 1 canoe and kayak tripping, several class 4 and 5 river trips.
Dragon Boat racing, competitive free style kayaker: numerous canoe and kayak tripping, also several class 4 river day trips in K1.
Team #: 04
Team Name:
Rocket Rob
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Rob Colliver
Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
42
male
Race Goals:
Faster, warmer, less of a numb backside, stay awake in Dawson to finish my beer.
Bio: Enjoyed 2006 YRQ, various marathons and Devizies to Westminster: 2006 Yukon River Quest.
Team #: 05
Team Name:
Coureur des Bayou
Class: Voyageur Canoe
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Richard Ameen
George Melder
John Hoffart
Edoh Y. Amiran
John Qualls
Liam Price
Wade Binion
Pete Binion
Cypress, Texas, USA
Spring, Texas, USA
Magnolia, Texas, USA
Lynden, Washington, USA
Magnolia, Texas, USA
Redmond, Washington, USA
College Station, Texas, USA
College Station, Texas, USA
45
45
43
46
52
36
28
57
male
male
male
male
male
male
male
male
Race Goals:
Make good choices, make good decisions - survive, finish, paddle hard.
Experience the Yukon Territory and win.
Be very competitive.
Finish, go fast, enjoy.
Finish and do well.
Paddle hard.
Finish, have fun.
Safely complete the race/enjoy the experience/win class.
Bio: Texas Water Safari, Yukon River Quest, Colorado 100: camping Wind River, 2006 YRQ.
Texas Water Safari and various other canoe races: numerous trips on various Texas and Arkansas Rivers.
Numerous races in Texas: five time finisher of Texas Water Safari.
Yukon River Quest, Texas Water Safari 2005: rafting, canoeing (NWT, BC, YT).
Texas Water Safari: backpacking and canoeing with Scouts.
Texas Water Safari, Marathon canoeing, running, pickleball: various Canadian and US canoeing and rafting trips.
Texas Water Safari: Ausable River, Belize River.
Texas Water Safari, multiple marathon races: 20 years wilderness river experience.
Team #: 06
Team Name:
3 Pistols
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Jean-Guy Sauriol
Toronto, ON, Canada
53
male
Race Goals:
To continue to make friends in the Yukon, to enjoy the river, and to finish in Dawson.
Bio: 2005 YRQ and 2006 YRQ: recreational canoe-camping in Ontario, extensive kayak training in varying conditions on Lake Ontario.
Team #: 07
Team Name:
The Austrian
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Heinz Rodinger
Gramustatten, Austria
66
male
Race Goals:
To finish healthy and have fun, to better last year's time.
Bio: Six times YRQ: Yukon River Quests and Devizies to Westminster eight times.
Team #: 09
Team Name:
Prairie Schooner III
Class: Tandem Canoe - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Dave McGee
Lisa McGee
Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Lethbridge, AB, Canada
53
20
male
female
Race Goals:
To improve on our 2005 time and be the first wooden hull to Dawson.
Race hard, suffer gracefully, and finish in Dawson smiling!
Bio: 2005 and 2006 YRQ: multi-week trips in the Canadian shield area, Yukon River, and the Oldman River.
2006 YRQ, support crew in 2005, sprint kayak/canoe racing in Western Canada: trips down the Oldman River, Kootenai River, Yukon River, and lakes in western Canada.
Team #: 10
Team Name:
Buckshot
Class: Tandem Canoe - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Jim Buckingham
Linz Buckingham
St. John's, NL, Canada
St. John's, NL, Canada
44
18
male
female
Race Goals:
To improve on last year's time and take the short route to Dawson!
To improve on last year's time and still be talking to my Dad by the end of the race!
Bio: YRQ 2006.
YRQ 2006.
Team #: 11
Team Name:
Determinator
Class: Tandem Kayak - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
William Reitzer-Smith
Ann M. Reitzer-Smith
Addison, TX, USA
Addison, TX, USA
47
52
male
female
Race Goals:
I am going to stay as far ahead of Ann as I can. If I can make her chase me the whole way, we should finish in a good position!
I am going to stay close to Bill for the entire race!
Bio: 2005 YRQ (scratched), 2006 solo kayak finish: 2006 YRQ.
Colorado River 100, Mississippi Phatwater (45 miles): support crew for Bill at 2005 and 2006 YRQ, US Army, Advanced Wilderness First Aid.
Team #: 12
Team Name:
W.C. Squared
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
William S. Crew
William T. Crew
Burlington, ON, Canada
Burlington, ON, Canada
23
55
male
male
Race Goals:
To complete YRQ 2007 while spending quality time training and competing with my Dad.
To finish the race to the best of our ability, while having a great time with my son.
Bio: No race experience: rafted Yukon River from Whitehorse to Emmonak in summer of 2006.
No race experience: paddled on Lake Ontario.
Team #: 13
Team Name:
All the Way
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Darren Crocker
Crowthorne, Berkshire, UK
37
male
Race Goals:
To win, or maybe, just make the cut off's, you never know.
Bio: No big race, only local club: kayak, camp the Athabasca, two months Chille Sea and white water, month on the Yukon River kayaking and camping, and plenty of backpacking and survival courses.
Team #: 14
Team Name:
Kisseynew
Class: Voyageur Canoe
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Martin Bernardin
Paul Haynes
Derek Eftoda
Zenon Kucheran
Gordon Moise
Ken Wallis
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Clearwater River, SK, Canada
Clearwater River, SK, Canada
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
D'Arcy, SK, Canada
34
33
30
30
39
54
male
male
male
male
male
male
Race Goals:
Enjoy the ride.
Meet new people, see new places, stay awake, paddle hard.
To finish.
Be fast, be strong, finish well...and enjoy the experience to the fullest.
Enjoy the scenery.
Primarily to finish.
Bio: YRQ 2006, SCCQ 2005: lots of wilderness river experience.
SCCQ: various northern Canadian rivers.
SCCQ: various northern river tripping experience.
Saskatchewan Centennial Canoe Quest, five years Dragon boat racing: rivers in Saskatchewan and British Columbia.
YRQ 2006, SCCQ 2005: too many rivers and lakes.
SCCQ, YRQ 2006: Churchill River, Saskatchewan River.
Team #: 15
Team Name:
Yukon Raider
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Brad Pennington
Houston, TX, USA
39
male
Race Goals:
To win the Solo Kayak class.
Bio: 400 mile Raid World Championship France 2005; 2005 Raid World Cup 120 miles, Norway/Sweden, Oregon; 2004 Raid World Cup 120 miles Western Australia; 2003 Raid World Cup 120 miles Scotland, France/Italy, Spain, Idaho; 2002 Raid Gauloises 620 miles northern Vietnam; 2000 Eco-Challenge 320 miles Malaysian Borneo: Kayak/canoe experience, competitive and expedition includes the Da Nang River, Ba Be Lake and Ha Long Bay (Vietnam), Loch Ness and Spey River (Scotland), Lac Leman (Switzerland), Isere River and Lake Annecy (France), Segama River and Celebes Sea (Borneo), Columbia River (Canada), Salmon River (Idaho), various fjiords and rivers (Norway), Palau/Micronesia, etc.
Team #: 16
Team Name:
Team WHOA
Class: Voyageur Canoe
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Patricia Clune
Susan McVeigh
Robin McDowell
Susan McDowell
Sarah Darroch
Marie Dunn
Ginette Young
Shelley Gellatly
Bernadette Nagle
Elizabeth McIlroy
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toronto, ON, Canada
Geneva, Illinois, USA
Markham, ON, Canada
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toronto, ON, Canada
Oakville, ON, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toronto, ON, Canada
50
50
47
52
44
51
52
43
55
49
female
female
female
female
female
female
female
female
female
female
Race Goals:
To keep the contents of the boat to a minimum, stay out of the water and off the shore!
To be in Dawson City for Happy Hour on Saturday and to heartily enjoy myself on Lake LaBerge...stroke by stroke by stroke...
The Finish line! and perhaps one less crash than last year...maybe.
To have fun, improve last year's time and keep up with the "other ladies".
To finish alive!
To stay dry and learn to like Lake LaBerge!
To complete the race and have fun, fundraise.
To meet some crazy gals, see the river, have a great time!
To enjoy the event and stay dry.
To finish smiling - faster than last year.
Bio: Yukon River Quest 2003, 2005, 2006.
Yukon River Quest 2005 and 2006.
River Quest 2006.
2006 YRQ.
No race experience: no wilderness river experience.
Yukon River Quest 2006 with Team WHOA: canoe trips in northern Ontario.
No race experience: no wilderness river experience.
Worked as athletic therapist/first aid Carmacks for three years, crewed for several teams, Yukon Arctic Ultra, etc: several long distance trips in NWT and Manitoba, white water kayaking.
Yukon River Quest 2006.
Voyageur canoe 2006, 2005.
Team #: 17
Team Name:
Flower Power
Class: Single Kayak - Female
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Ingrid Wilcox
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
59
female
Race Goals:
To improve on my best time; to break 55 hours; and to keep Heinz in sight!
Bio: 2000 YRQ, 2002 - 2006 YRQ: assorted rivers in the Yukon, Colorado, Mexico, and Chile.
Team #: 18
Team Name:
Tractor Boy
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Andrew Jillings
Clinton, NY, USA
41
male
Race Goals:
To finish in the top two-thirds - no loss or gain of life.
Bio: No race experience, however, I have been teaching Outdoor Education, including wilderness tripping and survival at the college level, for 14 years: Magpie River, Quebec, July 2005: 6 day self-supported whitewater kayak trip (class V); two times lead, Florida Everglades "Wilderness Waterway" 2004, 2006; hundreds of single day whitewater and sea kayak trips.
Team #: 19
Team Name:
Water Wanderer
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Eric Kocher
Atlanta, GA, USA
59
male
Race Goals:
Share a smile, a laugh, and a bear hug with each competitor!
Bio: 2004, 2005, 2006 YRQ, Great Mississippi River Race: extensive wilderness river experience.
Team #: 20
Team Name:
Kisseynew Skookum Asphalt
Class: Voyageur Canoe
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Michael Bernardin
Ryan Martin
Brad Stone
Dan Girouard
Jimmy Peter MacDonald
Dennis Fosseneuve
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Sherwood Park, AB, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Saskatchewan, Canada
Cumberland House, SK, Canada
32
35
31
29
22
39
male
male
male
male
male
male
Race Goals:
Paddle hard - enjoy the scenery.
Improve on last year's time and have fun.
To finish and have fun!
To finish in the top three in voyageur category.
To help my team win the race.
Paddle hard and be a part of an adventure.
Bio: YRQ 2006, SCCQ 2005: Churchill, Paul, and Hayes Rivers.
YRQ 2006: Yukon, MacMillan, and Pelly Rivers.
No previous race experience: several years whitewater and flatwater racing. Nothing this big!!!
Eight years of sprint canoeing and completed the ninety mile race in the Adirondacks in 1996: experienced river kayaker.
SCCQ: whitewater canoe instructor/guide, NWT (Tazin, Taltson, Schmundt, Abitau Rivers), Saskatchewan (Porcupine, Paul, Clearwater and countless other rivers).
2006 YRQ, other races in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Michigan: many rivers.
Team #: 21
Team Name:
Grandma Bun Bun
Class: Single Kayak - Female
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Linda Bourassa
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
54
female
Race Goals:
To finish the race feeling great! Not get sick on Lake LaBerge, have fun, beat my previous best time.
Bio: Six years Yukon River Quests: six years YRQs plus training.
Team #: 23
Team Name:
EMS
Class: Solo Canoe - Open
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Steven Landick
Marquette, MI, USA
54
male
Race Goals:
To enjoy the scenery.
Bio: 2001, 2004, 2005, 2006 Yukon River Quests: Sturgeon River sloughs.
Team #: 24
Team Name:
Class: Single Kayak - Female
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Susan Dunsmore
Eagle River, AK, USA
42
female
Race Goals:
To finish, hopefully, somewhere other than last.
Bio: No race experience: 2000 paddled the length of the Yukon River System (Lake Bennett to Bering Sea) in a solo canoe, many other 3 - 14 day paddles in Alaska and New England.
Team #: 25
Team Name:
Yukon Water Women Two
Class: Tandem Canoe - Women
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Patricia McKenna
Elizabeth Bosely
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
53
43
female
female
Race Goals:
To enjoy the beauty and strength of the Yukon River one more time in the Yukon River Quest Race.
To watch three sunsets and three sunrises (maybe two sunrises if we're really fast!!)
Bio: 2002 YRQ first place Tandem Canoe Women, 2004 first place Tandem Canoe Women, 2006 Voyageur Canoe: extensive wilderness river experience.
YRQ 2004 Co-Ed C2, 2005 C2 Women third place, 2006 Voyageur Canoe: born and raised Yukon wilderness traveller!
Team #: 26
Team Name:
Rowers Revenge
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Simon Huntley
Jonathan Mills
Lyne, Chertsey, Surrey, UK
Derby, Derbyshire, UK
40
39
male
male
Race Goals:
To finish with a smile and a hand full of new blisters!
To finish. We won't be the fastest but aim to be brisk and competitive.
Bio: First YRQ, numerous triathlons, marathons, ultramarathons, ironman, competitive elite oarsman 15 years, marathon 2004: recreational kayaking on Thames, many hours of single sculling and rowing on tidal and non-tidal waters.
Will have completed the Devizes - Westminster at the time of the race (April 2007): have canoed long stretches of the Tyne, the Trent, and the Wye in the UK.
Team #: 27
Team Name:
Scarlet Fever
Class: Voyageur Canoe
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
John Grant
Jenny Cairns
Tony Park
Karen Olito
Michele Turner
Jennifer Hunter
Robert D. Gaetz
Rick Aird
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Prince George, BC, Canada
Pelly Crossing, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Watson Lake, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
58
46
43
47
36
29
46
43
male
female
male
female
female
female
male
male
Race Goals:
To try and improve last year's time. Have a safe enjoyable trip.
To have a fun paddle with my team.
To finish the race healthy and improve on last year's time.
To have fun, make memories.
To be an asset to the team.
To have fun.
To have fun/enjoy the experience.
NA
Bio: YRQ - 2004, 2005, 2006: numerous ocean canoe trips, river trips.
No race experience: 25 years of paddling, guided wilderness trips for 9 years.
YRQ 2004, 2005, 2006: some recreational tandem canoe trips.
YRQ 2004, 2005, 2006: just previous year.
No race experience: minimal wilderness river experience.
No race experience: some whitewater rafting.
No race experience: no wilderness river experience.
2006 YRQ
Team #: 28
Team Name:
Kayak4All - 1
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Ido Merfeld
Itzhah Gabbay
Nirit, Israel
Hod Hasharon, Israel
43
50
male
male
Race Goals:
To finish the race under 65 hours.
To finish the race under 65 hours.
Bio: No race experience: multi-day river experience in Israel and Europe, extensive experience with long open sea paddling.
No race experience: extensive experience with open sea paddling, river and wilderness experience in Israel and Turkey.
Team #: 29
Team Name:
Kayak4All - 2
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Rony Levinson
Aliluiko Alex
Tel Aviv, Israel
Rehovot, Israel
42
27
male
male
Race Goals:
To finish the race under 65 hours and enjoy the ride.
To enjoy as much as possible and to finish the race, hopefully, in less than 60 hours.
Bio: No race experience: Jordan River - Israel, extensive experience with open sea paddling, white water, long distance paddling along shores and lakes in Israel, Turkey, and Cyprus.
No race experience but long distance sea paddling: no wilderness race experience.
Team #: 30
Team Name:
Surge and Yaw
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Tim Hodgson
Al Wissinger
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Grand Marais, MI, USA
39
50+
male
male
Race Goals:
Dawson - FAST!
To be competitive in my class.
Bio: 100% of 3 YRQ's and 2% of 1 YRQ: many years on the water.
General Clinton, Superior Challenge, numerous local races: many Michigan and Ontario rivers, Colorado River, miles of Lake Superior shoreline.
Team #: 31
Team Name:
Wobbly Wallabies
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Peter Anderson
Steve Pizzey
Summer Hill, NSW, Australia
North Parromatta, NSW, Australia
26
32
male
male
Race Goals:
Top 3 finish in our class.
Top 3 finish in our class.
Bio: Murray Marathon x 2, Oxfam Trailwalker 100 km x 2, 100 km Rhine Regatta rowing race: no wilderness experience, hope to have some by race day (if not by race finish).
Murray Marathon x 1, Oxfam Trailwalker 100 km x 2, Marathon Des Sable 240 km x 1: have always been camping and treking.
Team #: 32
Team Name:
Evil Geezers
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Philippe Blouin
Richard Steppe
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Irving, TX, USA
33
49
male
male
Race Goals:
Depends on partner's goal: have fun and maybe win.
Have fun and not freeze. Finish!!
Bio: I raced the Texas Water Safari twice (finished both), Colorado 100, many more long distance races: 22 years of kayaking, some "canot-camping" leisurely.
2005 and 2006 YRQ: YRQ 2005 and 2006, Texas Water Safari (13 years), numerous marathon canoe races worldwide.
Team #: 34
Team Name:
Tiger
Class: Single Kayak - Female
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Melanie Harrop
Eagle River, AK, USA
28
female
Race Goals:
To complete the race in 55 hours.
Bio: First YRQ, however, I've competed in and completed numerous 3-26 mile road and cross-country races, biathlons, and triathlons: over 10 years of exploring the Alaska bush by kayaking/rafting/canoeing with each trip lasting 5-7 days, some of the trips include 40 Mile - Yukon, Copper and gulkana Rivers.
Team #: 35
Team Name:
Down Under 2
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Urs Mader
Gladesville, NSW, Australia
55
male
Race Goals:
To take on a fantastic challenge - finish well - have a great adventure!
Bio: Seven Hawkesbury Classics (111 km), two Murray River Marathons (404 km): Murray River.
Team #: 37
Team Name:
YK JACK
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Jack Simpson
Yellowknife, NT, Canada
42
male
Race Goals:
To complete the race in three days - 72 hours total with layovers, 62 hours on the water.
Bio: YRQ 2004 Solo Kayak (scratched in Carmacks), 2005 YRQ Mixed Tandem (64 hours) completed: 21 day Nahanni River expedition from Upper Rock Gardens to Liard River.
Team #: 38
Team Name:
Gertie's Waiting
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Jan Nyboer
Larry Seethaler
Anchorage, AK, USA
Anchorage, AK, USA
64
64
male
male
Race Goals:
Paddle well, pee well, eat well, finish well.
To paddle well.
Bio: Canoe YRQ 2005, Voyageur YRQ 2006: YRQ x 2.
Both Dyea to Dawson and all the Yukon River Quests: a lot of wilderness river experience.
Team #: 39
Team Name:
Down Under One
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Tom Simmat
Belrose, NSW, Australia
59
male
Race Goals:
Under 50 hours of fun.
Bio: YRQ 2005 and 2006, Murray Marathon 2003/2005: Yukon River Quest x 2.
Team #: 40
Team Name:
Phoenix
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Denny Parkhill
Jim Stephen
Kelowna, BC, Canada
Kelowna, BC, Canada
57
60
male
male
Race Goals:
To finish the race under 60 hours.
To finish under 60 hours.
Bio: 2006 YRQ - did not finish: Stewart and Yukon Rivers, Carmacks to Dawson, 2006 YRQ.
2006 YRQ (scratched - shoulder injury), surgically repaired September 6, 2006: Stewart, Yukon, Teslin, Nachako Rivers, and 2006 YRQ.
Team #: 41
Team Name:
Dynamic Duo Minus One
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Rich Waters
Whitesboro, NY, USA
54
male
Race Goals:
To finish the race.
Bio: 11 years marathon racing in Adirondacks area, scratched K2 YRQ 2006: 11 years marathon river racing in Adirondacks area.
Team #: 42
Team Name:
RAF A
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Mark Clay
Carl Beet
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK
TBA
37
TBA
male
male
Race Goals:
To finish under 50 hours.
TBA
Bio: No race experience but will have completed several races by the time of the event: general military kayaking.
TBA
Team #: 43
Team Name:
RAF B
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Jim Creber
Sean G. Willis
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK
Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK
42
32
male
male
Race Goals:
To finish under 50 hours.
To complete the course with a smile on my face!
Bio: Will have completed several races by the time of the event: kayaking and canoeing on Scottish rivers.
The Devises to Westminster canoe race (UK 1999): British Army Military training - basic canoe skills.
Team #: 44
Team Name:
RAF C
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Russ Boffin
Suneil H. Raval
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK
38
42
male
male
Race Goals:
To complete the race.
To finish.
Bio: No race experience: various RAF kayak adventures.
No race experience: various military kayak expeditions.
Team #: 45
Team Name:
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Robert Krushel
Yellowknife, NT, Canada
39
male
Race Goals:
To enjoy the scenery.
Bio: Adventure racing, marathons, and a series of ill-conceived wilderness adventures: Thelon and Yellowknife Rivers in NWT, Castle, Bon, Oldman Rivers in Alberta, sea kayaking in Great Slave Lake.
Team #: 46
Team Name:
Pipe It Up
Class: Voyageur Canoe
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Terry N. Ramin
Leah Anderson
Andre J. Vandermeer
Robert Blain
Gregory Tibbetts
John Bradley
Rick McChesney
Luke Duffy
Prince Rupert, BC, Canada
Prince Rupert, BC, Canada
Prince Rupert, BC, Canada
Prince Rupert, BC, Canada
Anchorage, AK, USA
Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland
Prince Rupert, BC, Canada
Anchorage, AK, USA
48
36
47 ,br> 47
59
38
49
29
male
female
male
male
male
male
male
male
Race Goals:
Complete the Quest with a bunch of great friends.
To finish the race in good spirits and good shape.
Have fun, stay healthy, finish the race, and paddle like Hell!!!
To finish in good time with a smile on my face.
To return to the Yukon again as a voyageur. To complete the race in style and enjoy the experience with my friends.
To get to Dawson by boat.
To finish.
Complete the race (adventure) and be an asset to the team.
Bio: YRQ 2004, 2005, 2006: YRQ, Skeena River, La Ruta Maya.
YRQ 2004, 2005, 2006: Skeena River, La Ruta Maya.
Some short sprint type canoe racing: I've paddled the Upper and Lower Stikine River, the Blackwater River, and various rivers on the Skeena watershed.
YRQ 2006: many years on Skeena River, BC, and numerous tributaries.
Seven previous Yukon River Quests - canoe, kayak, and voyageur class.
YRQ 2006: multi-day sea kayaking.
Very little race experience: very little wilderness river experience.
2002 raced/competed Maui Outrigger season (6 man), paddled for Hawaiian Canoe Club Men's Novice B - 7th in State. Also paddled for Seattle Outrigger Canoe Club. Competed in Gorge Games: floated the upper Kenai River/kayaked class 3 section of Kailing River in New Zealand.
Team #: 47
Team Name:
Happy To Be Here
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Doug Clark
Sherwood Park, AB, Canada
55
male
Race Goals:
To finish the race and get a Finisher's Pin.
Bio: Raced and finished 2006 YRQ, although ranked as DNF due to replacing of partner at Carmacks.
Team #: 48
Team Name:
Saint Lawrence Valley Paddlers
Class: Voyageur Canoe
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Kerry Newell
Mary Houck
John Ders
Phillip Bridgman
Robert Brown
Helen-Holly Crouch
Steven Coffin
Heuvelton, NY, USA
Clinton, NY, USA
South Otselk, NY, USA
Hannawa Falls, NY, USA
Norfolk, NY, USA
Sherburne, NY, USA
Canton, NY, USA
60
45
57
52
58
49
25
male
female
male
male
male
female
male
Race Goals:
To win and paddle, smiling, start through finish. To hum, whistle, and sing as the crew allows.
To paddle 460 miles, smile every stroke of the way, and WIN the Yukon River Quest!
To win, have fun, work as a team, and hope my previous experience in the Yukon River Quest aids my team-mates.
To finish the race and still be smiling.
To work hard and win.
To win the Yukon River Quest and fully test my body to the extreme endurance maximum.
To win the Yukon River Quest.
Bio: General Clinton five times, Adirondack Canoe Classic seventeen times: wilderness river experience in northern New York and southern Ontario.
Adirondack 90 miler six times, NYMCRA races for over ten years: canoe and kayak trips throughout much of the northeast USA.
2005 and 2006 YRQ, nine years of marathon racing: Florida Everglades wilderness waterway, Algonquin Wilderness Park, Penobscot River, Yellowstone, Adirondack 100 mile wilderness waterway.
Adirondack Canoe Classic 90 mile race three times in voyageur canoe: whitewater kayak and open canoe trips down the Hudson, Racquette, Rouge, and Ottawa Rivers.
No Yukon River experience, have raced flatwater and whitewater canoes since the mid 1960's off and on: have travelled the waterways of the Adirondack Mountains since I was old enough to paddle alone.
I have competed in the 70 mile and 90 mile canoe races for 25 and 24 years each: I was a white water river rafting guide for two years in NY state for Griffiss AFB, Rome, NY.
General Clinton twice, Adirondack Canoe Classic once, no Yukon experience.
Team #: 49
Team Name:
Yahoos Down the Yukon
Class: Voyageur Canoe
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Terry Wescott
Olaf Braukmann
Sandra Mitchell
Bill Deighan
Bob Dean
Neil V. Phillips
Laurie Prange
Thorndike, Maine, USA
Mueden, Germany
Hyde Park, NY, USA
Newburgh, Maine, USA
Camden, Maine, USA
Old Town, Maine, USA
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
58
41
36
52
70
68
31
male
male
female
male
male
male
female
Race Goals:
To finish, have fun, win.
To finish
To have fun! finish! (And win...:) )
To have fun, finish, and hopefully have a good time.
To finish and win.
To be first in Voyageur Class and better than 5th place overall.
To have fun!
Bio: Thirty-seven years Whitewater racing, fifteen years Whitewater Open National Championships.
No race experience: trips within the Yukon.
Yukon Quest Sled Dog Race! :) Multiple Clinton 70's finishes, Fulmackro Whitewater Race Series, National Champion Women's Solo Downriver and Sprint categories: extensive camping and backpacking, multiple sled dog races (veterinarian) - Yukon Quest, Iditarod, Becrgress, multiple years canoe tripping on the St. John's River.
Twenty-five years of Whitewater racing including ten ACA Nationals, six 70 mile Clinton Canoe races: St. John's River trip, Donavoiture River trip, St. Croix River trip.
Nationals: St. John's River.
Fifth place overall Voyageur Canoe - 2003, open canoe whitewater racing thirty-seven years: have paddled from Maine to Texas by myself in canoe, Missouri River to Upper Pen. Michigan, USA.
2005 YRQ: three years as a canoe trip leader.
Team #: 50
Team Name:
Messengers of Hope
Class: Voyageur Canoe
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Joanna Chrystal
Karen Panzer
Eileen Jean Bowlby
Sylvia Riak
Haley Higdon
Doreen Davenport
Pauline Auty
Sylvia Rickard
Darlene Prager
Toronto, ON, Canada
Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Lantz, NS, Canada
Toronto, ON, Canada
Toronto, ON, Canada
Nobleton, ON, Canada
Toronto, ON, Canada
Ingersoll, ON, Canada
Bethany, ON, Canada
61
60
64
60
24
68
63
55
65
female
female
female
female
female
female
female
female
female
Race Goals:
Team Goal: to raise funds for a dedicated developer for a mammogram machine at the new regional hospital being built in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
To raise sufficient dollars to implement machinery regarding mammography for women through Foundation - to enjoy, work hard, and develop camaraderie with team.
To cross the finish line!
To cross the finish line with my team-mates.
To make the best time possible without any injuries to team members.
To finish the race without throwing my mother overboard.
To complete the race and fund raise to assist with the purchase of a dedicated developer unit for a mammogram machine for Nunavut women.
To finish the race successfully and place respectably (not dead last!). Avoid injury and raise money for Breast Cancer detection equipment in Nunavut.
To challenge myself, to finish the race, and to spend time with my friends.
To cross the finish line with a respectable time and still be friends with my paddlemates.
Bio: Dragonboat racing - seven years: Outward Bound, Quest for Life 2002, climbed Kilimanjaro.
Outward Bound, Courage of Women, Paddle to a Cure, CBCF, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro 2006: canoeing, Dragon - boating (World level) competitive 7 years, counseling at camp in water environment, cottage life for 9 years.
Dragonboat racing: no wilderness river experience.
Whitewater rafting: sailing, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro 2006.
No race experience: no wilderness river experience, 3 weeks Outward Bound canoe trip, climbed Kilimanjaro.
Dragonboat racing for seven seasons: no wilderness river experience, participated in Outward Bound, seven day Quest for Life wilderness course, Pemberton, BC, Sept. 2002.
Regularly compete in Dragonboat races nationally: no experience on rivers, paddled a kayak along the north shore of Georgian Bay (100 km stretch) in Paddle to a Cure team, climbed Kilimanjaro.
I have been a member of a dragonboat team for seven years and have raced in many local and international competitions: no wilderness river experience.
Dragonboat paddling for seven years, have competed internationally: no wilderness river experience.
Team #: 51
Team Name:
Two Old Geezers (TOGs)
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Royal Harrop (Bear)
Joseph F. Nash
Eagle River, AK, USA
North Pole, AK, USA
53
59
male
male
Race Goals:
To have fun and finish.
To have fun and finish the race.
Bio: No race experience: over 30 years experience paddling and backcountry experience. Alaskan Rivers - Yukon, Copper, 40 Mile, Chulitng, Susting, Nenana, Tanana, and many, many more.
No race experience: week long river trips on the Forty Mile River and the Yukon River.
Team #: 52
Team Name:
Team Kamloopsy
Class: Tandem Kayak - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Kam Davies
Jason Doucet
Kamloops, BC, Canada
Kamloops, BC, Canada
34
32
female
male
Race Goals:
To finish as fast as we can.
To race smart and finish in a respectable time.
Bio: A few short adventure races at Deep Cove Kayak: limited white water experience - but several multi-week/month sea-kayak trip/expeditions, west coast Vancouver Island and three month Vancouver to Glacier Bay, AK trip with Jason Doucet.
First time YRQ, a few shorter ocean kayak races: some whitewater kayaking, many multi-day ocean kayak trips, sea-kayak guide on Vancouver Island for five summers, three month sea-kayak trip from North Vancouver, Bc, to Glacier Bay, Alaska, summer 2005, unsupported, with Kam Davies.
Team #: 53
Team Name:
CANU-2
Class: Tandem Canoe - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Jim Boyde
Pam Boyde
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
64
59
male
female
Race Goals:
Perhaps an hour better than last year and ....a drier run!
Improve on last year's time.
Bio: Two previous River Quest races: most Yukon rivers - 42 day canoe trip.
Two previous River Quest races.
Team #: 54
Team Name:
Tyne Travellers
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Brendon Payne
David Price
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, County Durham, UK
Prudhoe, Northumberland, UK
28
34
male
male
Race Goals:
To finish and enjoy the experience.
To finish and enjoy the experience.
Bio: No YRQ experience, multiple running and hiking distance races: long river trips, sea kayaking in UK, wilderness hiking and backpacking experience.
Long distance walking and running races: experience of long river trips in UK, hiking in wilderness areas.
Team #: 55
Team Name:
VT Express
Class: Tandem Canoe - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Veronica Wisniewski
Thom Prichard
Lynden, WA, USA
Bellingham, WA, USA
47
56
female
male
Race Goals:
To have my maps ready - live up to Thom's expectation of beating Edoh's time.
NA
Bio: YRQ 2006: Dease, Gataga, Big Salmon, and Tahltson Rivers.
Twenty years marathon canoe racing: Bowron Lakes in BC, extensive hiking in the Cascades.
Team #: 56
Team Name:
MacKenzie
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Darran Williams
Sam Burston
Brighton, West Sussex, UK
London, UK
26
25
male
male
Race Goals:
To complete the race.
To complete the race, not looking to win this year!
Bio: No prior Yukon River Quest experience, but some adventure racing experience: one week river experience, plus extensive sea kayaking and other water sports experience.
No prior Yukon River Quest experience: annual week-long canoe trips including numerous day trips and other water sports experience. My mother lives on the River Wye.
Team #: 57
Team Name:
Paddle Me Hard
Class: Tandem Canoe - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Tim Antill
Holley Yorston
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Edmonton, AB, Canada
33
30
male
female
Race Goals:
To try our best and finish the race with a decent time.
To stay dry and happy!
Bio: This will be the first time for the Yukon River Quest, have participated in small, fun races: Stikine, Fraser, Nechako, North Saskatchewan, Athabasca and other rivers.
Nothing too serious in the past, this is our first "real" race: many of the rivers in central BC and Alberta.
Team #: 58
Team Name:
Blazing Paddles IV
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
John Little
David Little
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Red Deer, AB, Canada
48
46
male
male
Race Goals:
To keep up to my brother.
To make a better time than last year.
Bio: YRQ 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006: Yukon, North Saskatchewan, and the Athabasca Rivers.
Raced YRQ 2006: Yukon River 2006.
Team #: 59
Team Name:
No Chance
Class: Tandem Kayak - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Gaetan Didier
Lesley Ferguson
Brackley, Norths, UK
Warwick, Warwickshire, UK
32
41
male
female
Race Goals:
Finishing!
To finish the race and be able to stand up at the end of it!!!
Bio: Marathon running (8), trail running (Ultra) (1), mountain biking: Dora Baltea Italy (VI), Sere France (III), whitewater rafting.
No canoe racing, sea kayaking experience UK/NZ, river experience Czech Republic/UK, long distance open water swimming experience - Scotland 2005 inner Hebrides, River Thames, English lakes, Greek Cyclades 2006: backpacking, hiking worldwide, open water swimming, beachuffguarding rescue, etc.
Team #: 60
Team Name:
Dos Equis
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Ron Johnson
Jim Black
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Edmonton, AB, Canada
56
54
male
male
Race Goals:
To finish with an official time.
To finish with an official time.
Bio: No race experience: little, more open water, experienced wilderness camping.
Close to no race experience - canoeing, experience in Birkebliner Ski race, wilderness backpacking: fording rivers, open water, experienced.
Team #: 61
Team Name:
Juniper Trippers
Class: Tandem Canoe - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Robert Zimmerman
Zoe Zimmerman
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
56
18
male
female
Race Goals:
To have fun (partnered with daughter) and finish happy and healthy.
To have fun with father and finish happy and healthy.
Bio: Dyea to Dawson '98 Race: extensive - Nahanni (2), Bonnetplume, Snake, Natla-Keela Rivers.
No race experience: 5 week Quetico Park, Nahanni, and Snake Rivers.
Team #: 62
Team Name:
One More Time
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Edward M. Jager
Jim Jager
North Ogden, Utah, USA
Anchorage, AK, USA
73
47
male
male
Race Goals:
To finish and better our previous times.
To stay entertained.
Bio: 2004 and 2005 Yukon River Quest: approximately 20 years recreational canoe and kayak.
2004 and 2005 Yukon River Quest and the Dyea to Dawson race: enough.
Team #: 63
Team Name:
Team Bumbazer
Class: Solo Canoe - Open
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Joe (Bumbazer) Evans
Walterville, Oregon, USA
56
male
Race Goals:
To raise money for local charities - pledge for river mile. I come to finish and win my class and be the fastest over 55.
Bio: No race experience: whitewater canoeing and wilderness camping throughout west.
Team #: 64
Team Name:
Desnedhe Dene
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Norbert Wolverine
Lionel Campbell
Ile a La Crosse, Saskatchewan, Canada
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
40
31
male
male
Race Goals:
To experience a great river and finish in style.
It's my first year's attendance and want to finish the race.
Bio: Saskatchewan Centennial Canoe Quest 2005 (1100 km): avid canoer and kayaker, lived in the wilderness all my life.
Saskatchewan Centennial Canoe Quest 2005 (1100 km): grew up in the wilderness.
Team #: 65
Team Name:
Still No Clever Name
Class: Tandem Canoe - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Jeff Chantler
Kaitlin Chantler
Nobel, Ontario, Canada
Nobel, Ontario, Canada
49
16
male
female
Race Goals:
To finish again with a good time and enjoy the ride.
To haul my Dad's butt to the finish (as usual) and beat his time with my brother from last year. (Proving that girls can do better!)
Bio: 2006 YRQ (#47) with son, many local marathon races and local dragon boating: pleasure trips on northern Ontario rivers.
No Yukon experience, but lots of marathon canoe races in Ontario: lots of paddling on Georgian Bay (Sea Kayak Assistant Guide), finished the 40 mile North Bay to Mattawa River Race in Ontario.
Team #: 66
Team Name:
Bold Rush Determinators
Class: Tandem Canoe - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Pauline Frost
Derek Crook
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Nanaimo, BC, Canada
44
51
female
male
Race Goals:
To do as well as last year, or better, and to have a safe, enjoyable race.
Staying in front of the boat behind me and passing anyone ahead.
Bio: Two YRQ, also competed in Saskatchewan River Quest.
YRQ 2005, inside passage solo - 30 days, Vancouver circumnavigation solo - 36 days.
Team #: 67
Team Name:
Dungbeatles
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Duncan Porky Paul
Colin George Burden
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa
53
55
male
male
Race Goals:
To be there.
To do it.
Bio: No race experience: Zambezi River, Orange River, Tugela River.
No race experience: Zambezi River, Fish River, Limkomaas River.
Team #: 68
Team Name:
Tim x 2
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Tim Van Nest Sr
Tim Van Nest Jr
Kent City, Michigan, USA
Palmer, AK, USA
60
42
male
male
Race Goals:
To have fun, finish safe and on time.
To finish on time and dry.
Bio: No race experience: lots of back country backpacking.
No race experience: Alaskan guide.
Team #: 69
Team Name:
Right Now!
Class: Tandem Canoe - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Tom Fulop
Kim Nadeau
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
16
17
male
female
Race Goals:
To finish.
To finish the race.
Bio: 2006 YRQ, KC 1 BR 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006: lots of wilderness river experience.
No race experience: some small canoe trips with my dad over the years.
Team #: 70
Team Name:
River Bandits
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Tony Arcand
Kevin Mellis
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
45
33
male
male
Race Goals:
To make it to Dawson for last call.
To improve our time by two hours.
Bio: Ninth Yukon River Quest: 20 years wilderness river experience.
Fifth Yukon River Quest: 25 years wilderness river experience.
Team #: 71
Team Name:
Paddlers Abreast
Class: Voyageur Canoe
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Linda Rapp
Maureen Leboeuf
Anne Jessup
Faye Swerhun
Eliza Armstrong
Dawn Fralick
Helena McVane
Asa Berg
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Atlin, BC, Canada
51
54
54
59
24
56
47
50
female
female
female
female
female
female
female
female
Race Goals:
To regain full use of our upper bodies; to meet a physical and mental challenge; to prove that we can undertake strenuous exercise without developing lymphedema; to learn to trust our new bodies; to share a positive experience with other breast cancer survivors. We choose to do this as part of a public event in order to help other women living with breast cancer realize that they, too, can live full and active lives and to raise awareness about breast cancer.
Bio: Yukon River Quest 2001 was the first race for Paddlers Abreast, who are a group of Yukon women living with breast cancer. The original team learned about breast cancer survivors dragon boat teams across Canada and wanted to challenge themselves similarly. Every year since 2001 Paddlers Abreast has fielded a team comprised of both new and experienced paddlers and competed in the race.
Team #: 72
Team Name:
Aha Croca Croca
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Len Jenkins
Hugh Cocksedge
Pietermaritzburg, KZN, South Africa
Pietermaritzburg, KZN, South Africa
63
47
male
male
Race Goals:
To complete the race.
To complete the race.
Bio: 2003, 2005, 2006 Marathon World Champ non-stop Duzi Canoe Marathon - South Africa: Duzi River and Orange River.
Duzi, Umkomass, Fish River, Bivan/Pozogoua River, Zambezi River.
Team #: 73
Team Name:
Lief's Loafers
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Doug Fraser
Richard Brondson
150 Mile House, BC, Canada
Williams Lake, BC, Canada
52
35
male
male
Race Goals:
To finish in a respectable time.
To finish in a respectable time, try to keep up the pace with my partner!!!
Bio: 2001 Yukon River Quest, have done other races as well: 35 plus years wilderness river experience, long distance, rivers in BC, Yukon, NWT, Western Canada. Rivers include Wind, Peel, Eagle, Bell, Porcupine, Yukon, Stikine, Liard, Fraser, and many others.
No race experience: Athabasca River, Alberta, Horsefly River, Fraser River, Bowron River.
Team #: 74
Team Name:
Zephyr Moon
Class: Tandem Canoe - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Gregorty C. Hayden
Janice Clarke
Fairbanks, AK, USA
Fairbanks, AK, USA
35
NA
male
female
Race Goals:
To keep on keepin' on...
To canoe the best race in the least time.
Bio: No race experience: I have canoed/floated the following rivers: Yukon, Missouri, Yellowstone, Mississippi, Ohio, Savannah.
No race experience: our team canoed the entire Yukon River in the summer 2005 and witnessed the YRQ race but did not participate. Our team also canoed the entire Yellowstone and Mississippi Rivers. The captain canoed the Missouri solo!
Team #: 75
Team Name:
The Incredibles
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Andy Mears
Mike Beresferd
Bristol, North Sumoset, UK
Cuepstow, Gloucestershire, UK
26
24
male
male
Race Goals:
Completion,,,this year!
Completion...this year!
Bio: No race experience: canoe touring in Nova Scotia.
No race experience: kayaking in North Wales and kayak training courses.
Team #: 76
Team Name:
MaDrfx
Class: Tandem Canoe - Women
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Margrit Chang
Maya Nadine Chang
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Lytton, BC, Canada
63
29
female
female
Race Goals:
Rise to the challenge, survive, be healthy and finish, raise funds towards research of prostate cancer.
Try and finish. Get to Dawson in time for Canada Day to do the Sourtoe Cocktail with my Mom and Dad. Raise money for prostate cancer.
Bio: No race experience: Ottawa River kayaking (30 years), Elbe (Germany), sea kayaking in BC, whitewater rafting, sailing, training as much as possible.
No race experience: certified whitewater raft guide in BC and New Zealand, canoed Bowron Lake chain, parts of Algonquin Park, Ottawa River, Klondike River, sea kayaking multidays.
Team #: 77
Team Name:
The Rheindahlen Racer
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
John Catto
London, UK
32
male
Race Goals:
To beat last year's time.
Bio: YRQ 2006 finisher, Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race several times, marathon racing experience: Yukon River Quest 2006.
Team #: 78
Team Name:
Umingmaq
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Ken Brunton
Morgan Hill, CA, USA
66
male
Race Goals:
Learn much, laugh more, finish well.
Bio: Shorter ocean and river kayak races for 20 years: solo and group trips up to 3 weeks.
Team #: 79
Team Name:
Team Atlin
Class: Tandem Canoe - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Robert Smallwood
Jody Smallwood
Atlin, BC, Canada
Atlin, BC, Canada
33
30
male
female
Race Goals:
To finish in the top half.
To finish in the top half of our class.
Bio: 2002 Raid the North Extreme (Team Atlin): I am an avid hunter who uses some small rivers and lakes.
No race experience: canoe down the Atlin River.
Team #: 80
Team Name:
Latvian
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Andris Stavro
Riga, Latvian Republic
53
male
Race Goals:
To have fun and a great adventure.
Bio: Twenty years in kayak slalom, ten years in endurance races (Arctic Canoe Race, Helsinki-Tallinn, etc.): life-time experience in Siberian, Caucasian, Carpatian, Tajikistan highlands, etc. rivers.
Team #: 81
Team Name:
Funter Bay Boys
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
David A. Sevdy
Eric A. Nelson
Juneau, AK, USA
Auke Bay, AK, USA
44
46
male
male
Race Goals:
Finish!
Finish safely, have a great adventure.
Bio: Three Yukon River Quests, Iditiyak: camping on the Yukon and Taku Rivers.
No racing or Yukon River Quest experience: three trips on the Porcupine River and Yukon River from Old Crow to Circle, also the Coleen River.
Team #: 82
Team Name:
The Girl from Oz
Class: Single Kayak - Female
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Liz Winn
Wyoming, NSW, Australia
55
female
Race Goals:
Complete the race in the best time possible.
Bio: Hawkesbury Classic 2006 - 111 km, Murray Marathon - 404 km - 2006: Hawkesbury River, Murray River.
Team #: 83
Team Name:
Ecochallenge
Class: Tandem Kayak - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Hiromune Imai
Miyuki Sato
Suginamiku, Tokyo, Japan
Kamloops, BC, Canada
42
22
male
female
Race Goals:
We hope to finish the Yukon River Quest under 65 hours. To finish the race feeling nice! To finish the race with a big smile.
This is my first time for race, so I would like to enjoy and win!!
Bio: Coast to coast New Zealand, Ecochallenge Morrocco (canoe 170 km), Sea of Japan Kayak Race (150 km, 70 km, 195 km).
No race experience: I went down the Yukon River from Whitehorse to Dawson by myself.
Team #: 84
Team Name:
Paddlefit
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Jodi Bigelow
Chelsea, Quebec, Canada
36
male
Race Goals:
To get entered and to finish.
Bio: Adventure racer, Canadian Wildwater Marathon Kayak team: guide Nahanni River, Grand Canyon trip.
Team #: 85
Team Name:
NOLS Yukon-Alaska
Class: Tandem Canoe - Women
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Julie Brown
Amanda Cantal
Springfield, MO, USA
Warrenville, IL, USA
31
29
female
female
Race Goals:
To have fun and finish the race in style.
To have fun and finish.
Bio: No race experience: month-long sea kayaking/hiking expeditions, however new to river wilderness expeditions.
No race experience: I lead month long sea kayaking, backpacking expeditions, but new to wilderness river expeditions.
Team #: 87
Team Name:
Polé Polé
Class: Tandem Kayak - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Jamie Furniss
Allison Furniss
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
24
20
male
female
Race Goals:
To finish.
To have fun!!
Bio: This is my first race of this type, apart from short downriver races (1-3 hours): significant wilderness experience guiding on the Tatshenshini and rivers in the northern Yukon, NWT, and Idaho.
No race experience: some wilderness river experience.
Team #: W01
Team Name:
Class: WITHDRAWN
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
David Kelly
San Rafael, CA, USA
42
male
Race Goals:
Keep paddling downhill with a tailwind.
Bio: YRQ 2004, 2005, 2006: a few, here and there - more there than here.
Team #: W05
Team Name:
Try Again
Class: WITHDRAWN
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Dave Treasure
Usk, Monmouthshire, UK
60
male
Race Goals:
To finish (simple, but true!).
Bio: 2005 YRQ (scratched at Carmacks), 2006 YRQ (scratched at start): Yukon River Quests and dogmushing in Yukon and Alaska.
Team #: W08
Team Name:
Not Blonde Anymore
Class: WITHDRAWN
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Scott McGee
Karla McGee
Coaldale, AB, Canada
Lethbridge, AB, Canada
21
24
male
female
Race Goals:
To be the first wooden hull to Dawson. Finish race, close to or ahead of our Dad and brother!
Bio: 2005 and 2006 YRQ: YRQ 2005 and 2006, Oldman River, and lakes of western Canada. br> 2006 YRQ and support crew in 2005: Waterton Lakes, first part of the Yukon River in 2006, Oldman River, Snake River, and lakes in western Canada.
Team #: W14
Team Name:
Up Here Magazine's Fear-Inspiring Speed Machine
Class: WITHDRAWN
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Aaron Spitzer
Yellowknife, NT, Canada
34
male
Race Goals:
To finish the race, no matter in what time, while documenting the experience and publishing a magazine article about it.
Bio: No Quest experience, twenty years ago I was part of the U.S. Olympic Kayak team's junior development program: I've floated the Yukon (to the Dalton Highway in Alaska), the MacKenzie, and a few other northern rivers.
Team #: W16
Team Name:
Kayak for Care
Class: WITHDRAWN
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Heather Nelson
Bellingham, WA, USA
35
female
Race Goals:
To race harder and still suffer gracefully!
Bio: Yrq 2004 mixed tandem kayak, YRQ 2005 solo kayak: expedition paddler, adventure paddler, surf ski racer, white water paddler.
Team #: W20
Team Name:
Team - Xtreme
Class: WITHDRAWN
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Gary Marshall
Sharyn Brown
Northwich, Cheshire, UK
Windsor, Berkshire, UK
46
30
male
female
Race Goals:
To compete to our own limits to achieve the best time possible.
To finish quickly and challenge our limits to achieve a good time.
Bio: No previous canoe racing, general canoeing, currently doing British Canoe Union Courses, Devizie to Westminster 150 mile race April 2007, have competed in many endurance events including 350 mile ski race to the North Pole in 2006 : no wilderness river experience, wilderness experience as per Polar Challenge race mentioned above.
Mostly sailing - racing Catamarans and Lasers, completed Polar Challenge in 2006 - 350 km ski, have kayak experience on river and open sea: wilderness river experience is difficult to achieve in Europe, but I am taking courses and personal training to be ready.
Team #: W22
Team Name:
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Kevin Bowlin
Temecula, CA, USA
48
male
Race Goals:
To finish with a smile on my face!
Bio: Numerous summer adventure races in the Southwestern U.S.: have spent significant time on rivers in Wyoming and Montana.
Team #: W27
Team Name:
Outrageous
Class: WITHDRAWN
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Joe O'Blenis
Kamloops, BC, Canada
41
male
Race Goals:
Make last call at the Pub Friday in Dawson.
Bio: 2006 Yukon River Quest - marathon canoe/kayak racing: rivers all across Canada, cross Canada solo canoe trip.
Team #: W33
Team Name:
XLXS
Class: WITHDRAWN
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Carter Johnson
Sausalito, CA, USA
31
male
Race Goals:
No blisters again.
Bio: Some other races: camped in Yellowstone.
Team #: W36