2025 Race Wrap-Up: Awards and More

2025 Race Wrap-Up: Awards and More

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...
Day Two, Part Two: A Fast Field to Carmacks

Day Two, Part Two: A Fast Field to Carmacks

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...
Day Two, Part One: We’ve Got Winners!

Day Two, Part One: We’ve Got Winners!

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...
Day One: To the Marge of Laberge and Beyond

Day One: To the Marge of Laberge and Beyond

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...
2025 Race Preview: Racers to Watch

2025 Race Preview: Racers to Watch

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,...
2025 Board of Directors & AGM Report

2025 Board of Directors & AGM Report

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....

Registration starts November 25th!

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2024 Yukon River Quest Awards

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...