2008 Yukon River Quest
Team Biographies

Team #: 001
Team Name:
Texans
Class: Voyageur Canoe
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Richard Ameen
John Qualls
Liam Price
Richard Steppe
Jerry Cochran
Pete Binion
John Hoffart
Wade Binion
Cypress, TX, USA
Magnolia, TX, USA
Redmond, WA, USA
Irving, TX, USA
Prairie Lea, TX, USA
College Station, TX, USA
Magnolia, TX, USA
College Station, TX, USA
46
53
37
50
52
58
44
29
male
male
male
male
male
male
male
male
Race Goals:
To have fun again; finish.
To finish and enjoy the race.
Enjoy!
To finish, have fun, not freeze.
To finish and enjoy the race.
Safely complete the race; enjoy the experience; win class.
To finish and enjoy the race.
TBA
Bio: YRQ 2006 Solo, 2007 Voyageur: Texas Water Safari, YRQ.
YRQ once, Texas Water Safari five times: some canoeing and backpacking.
YRQ 2007, other marathon events in Washington and Texas: Yukon River.
YRQ 2005, 2006, 2007: Texas Water Safari 14 times.
Texas Water Safari: Texas Water Safari.
2007 YRQ; Texas Water Safari.
YRQ, Texas Water Safari: Yukon River.
TBA
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Team #: 002
Team Name:
Time To Go
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
David Hutchison
Gallatin Gateway, Montana, USA
47
male
Race Goals:
To finish.
Bio: I have been kayaking continuously for forty years: many raft trips, sea kayaking trips.
Team #: 004
Team Name:
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
John Davina
Kelowna, BC, Canada
58
male
Race Goals:
To enjoy the paddle and finish in the top 10 Kayak Class.
Bio: World Masters Cross Country Ski racing, Ironman Penticton, solo ski-sea: many treking, camping trips, canoe and kayak trips.
Team #: 005
Team Name:
The Blues Brothers
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Kurt W. Hanneman
Brent Hughes
Edmonton, AB, Canada
Edmonton, AB, Canada
54
24
male
male
Race Goals:
To do the best we can, laugh, and have fun on a great adventure.
To do the best we can, laugh, and have fun on a great adventure.
Bio: No race experience: camping, day kayak trips.
No race experience: recreational day trips, no marathon race experience.
Team #: 006
Team Name:
1234
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Jean-Guy Sauriol
Toronto, ON, Canada
54
male
Race Goals:
To continue to make friends in the Yukon, have fun, finish.
Bio: 2005, 2006, 2007 Yukon River Quest: canoe camping in Ontario.
Team #: 007
Team Name:
The Austrian
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Heinz Rodinger
Grumustetten, Austria
67
male
Race Goals:
To continue to improve my time.
Bio: 2005, 2006, 2007 Yukon River Quest: many of the Yukon rivers.
Team #: 008
Team Name:
Superoxide
Class: Solo Canoe - Open
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Peter Coates
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
53
male
Race Goals:
To beat Bumbazer. "Superoxide toxic free radical possibly associated with aging."
Bio: Yukon River Quest 2001, 2002, 2004: wilderness river experience on the Yukon, Pelly, etc.
Team #: 009
Team Name:
Ripple Effect
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Kevin Bowlin
Temecula, CA, USA
49
male
Race Goals:
To add another chapter to my quest for adventure. To finish with a smile on my face.
Bio: Have competed in numerous adventure races throughout southwestern US: Flathead River Montana, Colorado River Nevada, Arizona, California.
Team #: 010
Team Name:
Downunder For Now
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Bruce Dailey
North Bondi, New South Wales, Australia
37
male
Race Goals:
To finish the race.
Bio: Two Hawkesbury Classics (111 km), one Murray River Marathon (400 km), Leadville Trail 100: climbed Denali, climbed Cho Oyu, hiked the Appalachian Trail.
Team #: 011
Team Name:
Bones
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Michael Faughey-Scraggs
North Newbald, York, UK
40
male
Race Goals:
To finish safely in one piece and in a better position than 2006.
Bio: 2006 Yukon River Quest race finisher: regularly paddle grade 4 and 5 rivers, 15 years experience of Alpine rivers.
Team #: 012
Team Name:
Gummy Bears Can't Swim!
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Kieran O'Kane
Leigh, Surrey, UK
31
male
Race Goals:
To improve on my 2007 time and remember to drink!
Bio: Yukon River Quest 2007: UK sea kayak expeditions.
Team #: 013
Team Name:
Big Guy and The Kid
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Chris Olive
Ian Mockett
Kanata, ON, Canada
Kanata, ON, Canada
52
35
male
male
Race Goals:
To finish four feet ahead of Ian.
Top 10 of our division.
Bio: Dragon Boat: Carmacks to Dawson 2004 and 2006, Algonquin Park top to bottom six times.
No race experience: travelled from Carmacks to Dawson City in 2004 and 2006.
Team #: 014
Team Name:
Umingmaq
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Ken Brunton
Morgan Hill, CA, USA
67
male
Race Goals:
Learn more, laugh more, paddle better.
Bio: Yukon River Quest 2007, shorter races for twenty years.
Team #: 016
Team Name:
Alberta Beef
Class: Solo Canoe - Open
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Kevin Mellis Calgary, AB, Canada 34 male
Race Goals:
To come in under fifty hours.
Bio: Yukon River Quest 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
Team #: 017
Team Name:
Chasing Daylight
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Brad Pennington
Houston, TX, USA
41
male
Race Goals:
To bleed less than last year!
Bio: Yukon River Quest 2007: Vietnam, Borneo, Norway, France, etc.
Team #: 018
Team Name:
15 x 0
Class: Tandem Canoe - Mixed
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Larry Seethaler
Brenda Forsythe
Anchorage, AK, USA
Anchorage, AK. USA
65
50
male
female
Race Goals:
Same as always: paddle well and finish in a respectable time.
To paddle well and have fun.
Bio: Both Dyea to Dawson and all the Yukon River Quests: a lot!
98 Dyea to Dawson, Yukon River Quest 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005.
Team #: 019
Team Name:
Team Sloths
Class: Tandem Canoe - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Chrisptopher Alekandrou
Gordon Kirkby
Kensington, NSW, Australia
Rozelle, NSW, Australia
35
38
male
male
Race Goals:
First goal is to finish in good shape: would like to finish sub-60 hours.
To finish.
Bio: Successfully completed 5 Hawkesbury Canoe Classics (111 km), Hamilton Island Cup outrigger race, Australian National Team Dragon Boat: in training for Murray River Marathon (404 km), coached Australian National Team Dragon Boat 2006 as well as was Boat Steerer and Assistant Coach 2007, Sloths Dragon Boat Team Assistant Coach 2002-2007. Murray, Hawkesbury, and Kangaroo Rivers.
Hawkesbury River Canoe Classic (Australia): Yukon River (Whitehorse to Carmacks) 2004, Kangaroo River (Australia) several times.
Team #: 020
Team Name:
RBSI make it happen
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Robert Cassin
Carl Clinton
St. Helier, Jersey, UK
St. Brelade, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK
48
52
male
male
Race Goals:
To finish - to meet old and new friends.
To finish - to meet old and new friends.
Bio: Rowed the Atlantic 1997, rowed London to Paris 2000, Yukon River Quest 2006 finisher: Yukon River Quest 2006.
Rowed the Atlantic 1997, rowed London to Paris 2000, Yukon River Quest 2006 finisher: Yukon River Quest 2006.
Team #: 021
Team Name:
All The Way
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Darren Lee Crocker
Bracknell, Berkshire, UK
38
male
Race Goals:
Learned a lot last year, hope to improve my time by at least four hours.
Bio: Raced the 2007 Yukon River Quest and some local races: my kayak camping trips on the Yukon and Athabasca Rivers in Canada, rivers in Chile, and many survival courses.
Team #: 022
Team Name:
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Kerry Blandin
St. Clement, Jersey, Channel Islands, UK
58
male
Race Goals:
To finish.
Bio: No race experience: sea kayaking.
Team #: 023
Team Name:
Class: Single Kayak - Male
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Stephen Mooney
Whitehorse, YT, Canada
44
male
Race Goals:
Bio: Yukon River Quest 2003, 2004, 2005.
Team #: 024
Team Name:
Death Wish 1
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name
Location Age M/F
Peter Mey
Jean Van Eeden
Fort St. John, BC, Canada
Fort St. John, BC, Canada
35
35
male
male
Race Goals:
To finish.
To finish and have fun despite blood, sweat, and tears to keep up with Moertoe and Verzupte Schuit and maybe even beat them!
Bio: No race experience: recreational trips, various rivers in Africa - Orange River, Okauawgo River, Zambezi River.
No race experience: Bowran Lake circuit, river camping trips, multiple hiking trails.
Team #: 025
Team Name:
Verzuipte - Schuit
Class: Tandem Kayak - Men
Members:
Name