On Friday morning, twelve hours after the cut-off time for racers to reach this year’s abbreviated finish line in Carmacks, paddlers and support crews gathered for a buffet breakfast and an awards ceremony on the shore above the Yukon River. Race coordinator Cynthia...
After the fast finishes of the leaders early this morning, teams continued arriving steadily in Carmacks throughout the day. Sometimes it seemed like the air horn that marked a racer crossing the time line was blaring out every five minutes, as the boats piled up in...
Despite low water levels on the Yukon, the lead boats had a blazing finish into Carmacks early this morning. Under clear skies and peachy dawn light, team #37 Green Machine, a voyageur, pulled into the dock at 5:12 a.m., just over 23 hours after they set out from...
The starting horn sounded at 9 a.m. Pacific Time this morning in downtown Whitehorse. John Firth, who paddled in both the 1997 and 1998 Dyea to Dawson centennial races, was the one who let it rip, and sent 200 paddlers jogging across Rotary Park and down to their...
“All great ideas in the North – or most of them, I think – are germinated in a bar setting,” says Jeff Brady, one of the co-founders of the Yukon River Quest. He remembers sitting in Skagway’s Red Onion Saloon one winter in the early 1990s – “back when the Red Onion...
More than 200 paddlers will dash to their boats on Wednesday morning and shove off into the current as the Yukon River Quest begins in Whitehorse, Yukon. The racers are divided into 94 teams and come from 13 countries on five continents. From downtown Whitehorse,...
The Yukon River Quest (YRQ) is deeply rooted in the cultural, historical, and environmental essence of the Yukon. We acknowledge and accept that the Yukon River Marathon Paddling Association (YRMPA) has hosted the race on indigenous land and waters for many years. In...
The Yukon River Marathon Paddlers Association held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Wednesday October 23, 2024 at 5:30 PM at Sport Yukon and via Zoom. Members present re-elected Jason Biensch to the board, and elected new members Ben Lott and Esther Wheeler....
The 2024 race ended in Carmacks due to increased fire activity along the race route (on road and river). Paddlers were stopped there and did not carry on to the usual finish line in Dawson City. Top 3 by class listed here with finish times in Carmacks. Top 10 overall...
