2020 Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race

YUKON QUEST

2020

Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race

• Meet the 2020 mushers • Where to watch the race • Yukon Quest 300 • Yukon Quest history • Mushing lingo

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Meet the 2020 mushers

Rob Cooke 53 Whitehorse, Yukon Veteran

Brent Sass 40 Eureka, Alaska Veteran

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Richie Beattie 46 Two Rivers, Alaska Veteran

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Dave Dalton 62 Healy, Alaska Veteran

Torsten Kohnert 48 Sweden Veteran

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Cody Strathe 42 Cantwell, Alaska Veteran

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Ryne Olson 30 Two Rivers, Alaska Veteran

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Nora Själin 31 Furuflaten, Norway Rookie

Jason Campeau 45 Rocky Mountain House, Alberta Veteran www.atkakennel.com

Denis Tremblay 45 Quebec, Canada Veteran

Pat Noddin 29 Rocky Mountain House, Alberta Rookie

Michelle Phillips 51 10 Mile, Yukon Veteran

Chase Tingle 36 Two Rivers, Alaska Veteran

Olivia Webster (Shank-Neff) 32 Alaska Rookie

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Allen Moore 62 Two Rivers, Alaska Veteran www.SPKennel.com

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Wednesday, January 29, 2020

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37th Yukon Quest gets underway on Saturday

By Laura Stickells LSTICKELLS@NEWSMINER.COM

On Saturday 15 mushers, each pulled by 14 sled dogs, will cross the starting line of the 37th Yukon Quest 1,000 Mile International Sled Dog Race in downtown Fairbanks, beginning what many considered the most difficult sled dog race in the world.

The race follows historic mail routes and century-old trails to gold rush sites. Much of the race is on or next to the Yukon River.

“It’s a nine- to 14-day adventure, which is totally supported with a team of 18 vets and probably 50 logistics people, officials, pilots,” said Marti Steury, the Yukon Quest’s executive director in Alaska.

“Basically the teams pack up

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Where to watch the race

The Yukon Quest starts at 11 a.m. at the Morris Thompson Cultural Center in downtown Fairbanks. There is plenty of parking and viewing space along the banks of the Chena River. (Please be wary of ice conditions.) The Yukon Quest 300 begins at the same spot at 3 p.m.

Viewers can also see the mushers pass under the Nordale Road bridge a couple of hours (17 miles) after the start.

The trail goes along Chena Hot Springs Road from about Mile 21 to Mile 27, where it crosses onto the north side. There is parking available at Pleasant Valley Store at Mile 23. At Mile 24, 24 Mile Java and Treats is hosting a “Trailgate” party, starting at 2 p.m. until the final musher passes. Bring lawn chairs.

There will be a bonfire and local music.

The trail again crosses under CHSR at Mile 42. The Two Rivers checkpoint is at Mile 53 (about 30 miles from the community it’s named for.) their sleds and carry enough gear to go from point A to point B and there’s nine points in between,” Steury added

referring to the nine checkpoints that lie between Fairbanks and Whitehorse.

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Dogs rest in beds of straw at Dawson City, Yukon, the only checkpoint in which outside help is allowed along the race course. NEWS-MINER FILE PHOTO

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Yukon Quest at a glance

YUKON QU

1984 » Sonny Lindner — 12 days, 0 hours, 5 minutes 1985 » Joe Runyan — 11 days, 11 hours, 55 minutes

1986 » Bruce Johnson — 14 days, 9 hours, 17 minutes 1987 » Bill Cotter — 12 days, 4 hours, 34 minutes 1988 » David Monson — 12 days, 5 hours, 6 minutes

Circle City

1989 » Jeff King — 11 days, 20 hours, 51 minutes 1990 » Vern Halter — 11 days, 17 hours, 9 minutes

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START Fairbanks

Slaven's Cabin

Ce nt ral

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1991 » Charlie Boulding — 10 days, 21 hours, 12 minutes

1992 » John Schandelmeier — 11 days, 21 hours, 40 minut 1993 » Charlie Boulding — 10 days, 19 hours, 9 minutes 1994 » Lavon Barve — 10 days, 22 hours, 44 minutes 1995 » Frank Turner — 10 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes

Eagle

Tw oR ive rs

1996 » John Schandelmeier — 12 days, 16 hours, 6 minute 1997 » Rick Mackey — 12 days, 5 hours, 55 minutes

Dawson City

YUKON ALASKA

Fairbanks Two Rivers Mile 101 Central Circle Slaven's Roadhouse Eagle Forty Mile Dawson City Scroggie Creek Stepping Stone Pelly Crossing McCabe Creek Carmacks Braeburn Whitehorse

986 913 872 844 770 710 610 508 460 355 282 250 216 177 100

886 813 772 744 670 610 510 408 360 255 182 150 116 77 161

809 736 695 667 593 533 433 331 283 178 105 73 39 124 285

770 697 656 628 554 494 394 292 244 139 66 34 63 187 348

736 663 622 594 520 460 360 258 210 105 32 55 117 241 402

704 631 590 562 488 428 328 226 178 73 51 106 169 293 454

631 558 517 489 415 355 255 153 105 117 169 224 286 410 571

526 453 412 384 310 250 150 48 169 286 338 393 455 579 740

478 405 364 336 262 202 102 77 246 364 415 470 533 657 818

376 303 262 234 160 100 164 241 410 528 579 634 697 821 982

276 203 162 134 60 161 325 402 571 689 740 795 858 982 1143

216 143 102 74 97 257 422 499 668 785 837 892 954 1078 1239

119 216 377 541 618 787 904 956 1011 1073 1197 1358

114 41 45 164 261 422 586 663 832 950 1001 1056 1118 1242 1403

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73 66 111 230 327 488 652 729 898 1015 1067 1122 1184 1308 1469

117 183 229 348 444 605 769 Kilometers 847 1015 1133 1184 1239 1302 1426 1587

Checkpoints

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Distances Between Yukon Quest Trail Locations

Scroggie Creek

Hospitality Stop

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UEST CHAMPIONS

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1998 » Bruce Lee — 11 days, 11 hours, 27 minutes 1999 » Ramy Brooks — 11 days, 8 hours, 27 minutes 2000 » Aliy Zirkle — 10 days, 22 hours, 57 minutes 2001 » Tim Osmar — 11 days, 13 hours, 38 minutes 2002 » Hans Gatt — 11 days, 4 hours, 22 minutes 2003 » Hans Gatt — 10 days, 16 hours, 28 minutes 2004 » Hans Gatt — 10 days, 17 hours, 54 minutes 2005 » Lance Mackey — 11 days, 32 minutes 2006 » Lance Mackey — 10 days, 7 hours, 47 minutes 2007 » Lance Mackey — 10 days, 2 hours, 37 minutes 2008 » Lance Mackey — 10 days, 12 hours, 14 minutes 2009 » Sebastian Schnuelle — 9 days, 23 hours, 20 minutes 2010 » Hans Gatt — 9 days, 0 hours, 26 minutes 2011 » Dallas Seavey — 10 days, 11 hours, 53 minutes 2012 » Hugh Neff — 9 days, 17 hours, 14 minutes 2013 » Allen Moore — 8 days, 19 hours, 39 minutes 2014 » Allen Moore — 8 days, 14 hours, 21 minutes 2015 » Brent Sass — 9 days, 12 hours, 49 minutes 2016 » Hugh Neff — 9 days, 1 hour, 20 minutes 2017 » Matt Hall — 10 days, 1 hour, 7 minutes 2018 » Allen Moore — 9 days, 18 hours, 53 minutes 2019 » Brent Sass — 9 days, 2 hours, 34 minutes

C H E C K P O I N T S N A P S H OT S TWO RIVERS: The checkpoint dubbed Two Rivers is located at Mile 53.5 Chena Hot Springs Road, far

from the residential area commonly known by the same name. It consists of warming shelters and tents that are provided by the Alaska Army National Guard.

MILE 101: Mile 101 isn’t a permanent settlement — it consists of several cabins along the

Steese Highway that are the background of the checkpoint, which is housed in trailers. Mushers can smell the bacon that is a highlight of the site. The checkpoint is at the base of Eagle Summit, which is often the most difficult obstacle during the race. Mushers must take a mandatory four-hour rest at either the Mile 101 or Central checkpoint. The choice is left to each musher.

CENTRAL: The spread-out community of Central hosts its Quest checkpoint at Central Corner, which

features a restaurant, bar, gas station and small grocery store. Central emerged in 1894, following the discovery of gold in the Circle Mining District.

CIRCLE CITY: Located at the end of the Steese Highway, Circle City began in 1893 as a supply hub for

area gold mining camps. The town, located on the Yukon, has about 100 residents. The checkpoint is in the community’s fire hall.

EAGLE: The historic town of Eagle, the last checkpoint in Alaska, sits on the banks of the Yukon River.

Eagle, which has nearly 100 residents, has no road access during the winter months. The checkpoint is at the old schoolhouse in the community, where mushers are required to take a 4-hour rest.

DAWSON CITY: Dawson City is famous as the destination for more than 100,000 gold-hungry

stampeders during the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1890s. The once-booming town has about 2,000 residents today, with gold mining and tourism feeding the modern economy. Mushers must take a mandatory 36-hour layover in Dawson City, and a nearby campground becomes a staging area for mushers during the race.

PELLY CROSSING: Pelly Crossing, with about 350 residents, is a Selkirk First Nation community. Most of

its population relocated from nearby Fort Selkirk when the North Klondike Highway was completed in 1942. The Yukon Quest race checkpoint is located in the town’s community center.

CARMACKS: Carmacks, with a population of about 500, is named after George Carmack, a prospector

whose discovery at Bonanza Creek helped trigger the Klondike gold rush. Carmacks is located at the confluence of the Yukon and Nordenskiold rivers, and opens its community center as the race checkpoint.

BRAEBURN: The Braeburn checkpoint consists of Braeburn Lodge, a former roadhouse on the Dawson

Overland Trail. The restaurant at the lodge is known for its huge portions — particularly its platesized cinnamon rolls. Mushers are required to take an 8-hour rest in Braeburn before the final push to the finish line in Whitehorse.

Pelly Crossing

2020 Race Schedule Approximation Estimated Arrival & Departure Times

McCabe's Creek Carmacks

Braeburn

FINISH Whitehorse

as of 7/15/19

Approx Minimum Checkpoints Dog Miles Mandatory Drops from Last Layover CP

Date & Time of Arrival First Musher Arrival

Last Musher Depart

Fairbanks

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Sat

Feb 1 12:30

Two Rivers (Mile 53)

73

Sat

Feb 1 18:00

Sun

Feb 2 13:00

Mile 101

41

Central

28

~ 4hrs ~ OR ~ 4hrs ~

Sun

Feb 2 02:00

Sun

Feb 2 20:00

Sun

Feb 2 10:30

Mon

Feb 3 12:30

Circle City

74

Mon

Feb 3 00:00

Tues

Feb 4 10:00

Slaven’s Roadhouse

60

Mon

Feb 3 13:00

Wed

Feb 5 07:30

Eagle

100

~ 4 hrs ~

Tue

Feb 4 07:30

Fri

Feb 7 06:00

Dawson City

150

~ 36 hrs ~

Wed

Feb 5 16:30

Mon

Feb 10 05:30 Feb 11 01:30

Scroggie Creek

105

Fri

Feb 7 22:00

Tues

Pelly Crossing

105

Sat

Feb 8 17:30

Thu

Feb 13 04:00

McCabe Creek

34

Sun

Feb 9 02:00

Thu

Feb 13 17:30

Carmacks

39

Sun

Feb 9 07:30

Fri

Feb 14 07:30

Braeburn

77

Sun

Feb 9 23:30

Sat

Feb 15 09:00

Whitehorse

100

Mon

Feb 10 15:30

~ 8 hrs ~

Note: Starting time differentials (3 min between teams) are adjusted either in Mile 101 or Central depending on the mushers choice. *These are estimated arrival and departure times based on previous statistics. Keep in mind that this is an approximation; the route can change or something else can happen to throw these times off.

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Communication, coverage upgrades improve race Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in 2018.

By Danny Martin

The see-and-call method is history for the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race.

Technology runs the trails when it comes to communications for the 1,000-mile race that runs each year from Fairbanks to Whitehorse, Yukon, alternating the start and finish lines.

Global Positioning Satellite trackers placed on sleds replaced the see-andcall method decades after the race’s inaugural year.

“In 1984,’’ Marti Steury, Yukon Quest executive director, said, “it was the beginning of what we call the thousand-mile stare because we would have people — especially in the Yukon because everything was radiophone — call us from their locations, and say, ‘We just saw a (sled dog) team go by.’

“We’d get calls from people along the race saying ‘So-and-so just went through here, and oh, so-and-so just went through there.”

There also were stare-and-wait moments for volunteers and handlers at checkpoints.

“Someone would say, ‘Oh, I think I see a headlamp,’ and it wouldn’t be a musher. We would spend hours and hours waiting.”

Communications with ham radio operators occurred in 1984.

“It was the efficient way for us to get

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information,’’ Steury said.

In 2010, Quest officials switched to GPS trackers and got away from ham radio operators and people calling from checkpoints.

“Rather than having someone say ‘Someone just came by’, we’re actually able to watch in real time where the mushers were going,’’ Steury said.

“We’re able to put a clock on them and get all sorts of information that’s built up into a database that those GPS trackers record.”

Technology has helped the race become global, too.

A website for the race — www.yukonquest.org — was developed in the early 2000s. The Quest later joined the social media world with a Facebook page and a Twitter account, and live coverage of the race was streamed online for the first time last year.

“Last year, 1.1 billion people around the world heard about the Yukon Quest through various forms of media coverage,’’ Steury said.

Steury touted the streaming of the race for its fans.

“The privilege of that is you can get a cup of coffee in your own house and between the tracker page and our Facebook page,’’ she said, “you can see, you can hear, you can watch everything that’s happening at various places.

“The only thing you aren’t experiencing is the cold,’’ she added.

The race trail frequently follows mining roads, such as this one leading out of Dawson City in 2018. Claudia Wickert, who is running the Yukon Quest 300 this year, is pictured. NEWS-MINER FILE PHOTO

QUEST

Continued from 3 The 15-team starting field is the smallest in the race’s history.

The 1,000-mile journey alternates between starting in Fairbanks and Whitehorse, Yukon each year and does not allow any outside assistance. Thus, all supplies mushers will need during the race are sent to the checkpoints prior to the start.

The only exception to this rule is the Dawson City checkpoint located at mile 526, where mushers are required to rest for 36 hours.

In Dawson City, handlers are allowed to feed and care for the teams before the team gets underway on the second half of the race.

Mushers are also allowed to leave tired or injured dogs at each of the nine checkpoints and two designated dog drops, but not replace them.

The Quest is one of two 1000-mile sled dog races in the United States.

The other is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. However, because the Iditarod has 22 checkpoints and begins in March, the temperatures are usually warmer and the distances between checkpoints are shorter. Because of this, some mushers consider it to be the less challenging of the two competitions.

“One of the things that we do with (dogs) that is just a joy and a privilege is we challenge ourselves by doing long trail trips and that is what these races

are,” Steury said.

“There are a lot of serious competitors, there’s a lot of people that want to do this for the experience and there’s a lot of people that just want to share the time on the trail with their dogs.”

Of this year’s group of mushers, three are rookies, including 32-year old Olivia Shank-Neff. Although she is listed as Webster by the race because that’s what her passport says, the rookie uses the surname Shank-Neff.

Shank-Neff is the granddaughter of LeRoy Shank, one of the original founders of the 1,000-mile race. She’s also married to two-time Quest champion Hugh Neff. Her goal is to finish the race before her grandfather passes.

Among the 12 veterans is 62-year old Dave Dalton who will be making his 30th and final Yukon Quest start.

In addition to the 15 competitors beginning their attempt at the Quest on Saturday, 21 racers will also be starting the YQ300 — 300 miles along the same route.

The YQ300 is also a qualifying race for the Quest as mushers are required to successfully complete a 200-mile and a 300-mile sled dog race within the previous 42 months to enter.

The first racer will start the Quest at 11 a.m. The first YQ300 racer will start at 3 p.m. The teams will start in three-minute intervals.

Contact News-Miner sports writer Laura Stickells at 459-7530. Follow her on Twitter: @ FDNMsports.

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Yukon Quest 300 a challenging course on Alaska side Staff Report

Four hours after Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race begins, 21 additional dog teams will arrive at the Chena River start line for a related race.

The YQ300 is 300 mile race that follows the Yukon Quest course from Fairbanks to Circle, before heading out onto the frozen Yukon River for 40 miles and doubling back to the finish line in Circle.

The mushers in both the 1,000 and 300 mile races may overlap in some of the early checkpoints.

The YQ300 is one of only a few races in the world that fills the 300-

Eagle Summit — as seen coming from Whitehorse — is one of the major summits on the Alaska side of the trail. NEWS-MINER FILE PHOTO mile race requirement for the 1,000-mile Yukon

Quest. It is also a qualifier for the Iditarod Trail

Roots of Quest grew from Yukon gold rush, mail routes News-Miner files

Within the Bull’s Eye Saloon on Chena Hot Springs Road in April 1983, a musher and a historian were cracking out ideas over a beer about what eventually would become a legendary dog mushing race.

The plan was far from simple. This race would pay tribute to the gold rush, traders, trappers and mail carriers of old days, and would require the skills of survival and self-sufficiency from the racers. Connecting many known trade routes across Alaska, LeRoy Shank and Roger Williams pieced together a race path that stretched from Fairbanks to Whitehorse, Yukon.

During the December before the first Yukon Quest in 1984, the name already had been changed from the rather dull “Fairbanks to Whitehorse Sled Dog Race.” The new name, Yukon Quest, was based on the very path the race would take, the “old highway of the North,” the Yukon River.

Murray Clayton was the first person to commit to entering the race by paying his $500 entry fee. On Feb. 25, 1984, the race started with 26 entrants. However, during the duration of the competition, six mushers had to drop out before reaching the end in Whitehorse.

“You were kind of going off into the unknown,” Sonny Lindner, of Two Rivers, said in a past News-Miner interview. He was the first winner of the Yukon Quest with a time of 12 days and 5 minutes.

Underscoring the fact the race was intended to test the survival skills of the mushers, much of the trail across Alaska still was unbroken. Whoever was first in line at the time would sometimes need to break the trail by walking ahead of their team in snowshoes, clear the trail with axes and locate it when it became lost. It was planned for the trail to be marked ahead of time by a snowmachine, but it had broken down past Dawson City.

— Eric Bennett

Sled Dog Race. To participate in the longer race,

mushers must demonstrate their experience by having run a 300-mile and a 200-mile race.

The YQ300 is a substantially different race on even-numbered years when the race starts in Fairbanks, compared to odd-numbered years when it starts in Whitehorse.

“How do I put this nicely, it’s a lot flatter on the Whitehorse side,” said Marti Steury, executive director for the Alaska side of the race.

Of the four 3,000-plus-foot summits along the 1,000-mile course, dog teams run over two of them on the Fairbanks-side YQ300 — Rosebud and the notorious Eagle Summit.

They cross none of them on the Whitehorse side.

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How to tell your gee from your haw in mushing lingo So you want to know a bit about dog mushing but aren’t quite ready yet to bundle up, step on the sled runners and head down the trail? But you don’t know what a swing dog is? What runner plastic is?

What mushers mean when they yell out “Haw!” We’re here to help with this quick list of a few common mushing terms and equipment descriptions.

• Leaders: These are the dogs at the head of the team.

A team can have a single leader or two leaders in tandem.

• Swing dogs: Dogs in the swing position are located directly behind the leaders.

Their primary duty is to help the leaders turn — swing — the team on command.

• Team dogs: These are the dogs in the middle of the team.

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• Wheel dogs: Wheel dogs are the dogs located at the end of the team, the last set in front of the sled. Dogs in this position need to be stout, capable of turning the sled itself and withstanding some of the jolts that come as the sled goes into and out of dips on the trail.

• Booties: Essentially socks for the dogs, usually made of a tough but lightweight fabric and held on with a Velcro strap. They protect the dogs’ feet from snow and ice.

• Gang line: The main line, usually with a cable core, to which all of the dogs are attached and that is attached to a bungee at the front of the sled.

• Tug lines: The line that connects the back of a dog’s harness to the gang line. Some

newer-model harnesses have a tug line that attaches near the shoulder blades of the dog.

• Neck lines: Connects the dog’s collar to the gang line.

Used in tandem with a tug line on older-model harnesses.

• Brush bow: The flexible plastic arc, sometimes pointed, at the front of the sled. Essentially a bumper, allowing the sled to easily bounce off vertical obstacles on the trail.

• Haw: A command for the team to turn left.

• Gee: A command for the team to turn right.

• Easy: A command to slow the team.

• Whoa: A command to slow or halt the team (good luck with that).

• Trail!: A request to pass the team ahead of you.

• Hike!: Command to

go. Several variations exist.

(Mush! is not one of them.)

• Snow hook: Large, metal hook used to anchor the team.

Many mushers carry two snow hooks.

• Runner plastic: The driving surface that comes in contact with the snow. Most modern sleds have quick-change runner plastic. Runner plastic is available in various types for use in different trail conditions and temperature ranges.

• Bar brake: The sled’s main brake, usually with two claws and located just above foot level at the rear of the sled.

Generally used to bring a team to a stop or when descending steep terrain.

• Drag: A mat, often made of a piece of snowmachine track, located between the tail ends of the sled runners

and stepped on to control the team’s speed.

• Dropped dog: A dog the musher elects to leave in care of veterinarians for injury, illness or tiredness. Dogs can only be dropped at designated locations on the race trail.

Drop bags: These are the bags of supplies assembled by mushers and taken to checkpoints by race officials. The bags contain food and supplies to enable the team to get from checkpoint to checkpoint.

• Required gear: Most sled dog races have a list of gear a musher is required to carry at all times. The list varies depending on the mileage of the race, but required items usually include a cold-weather sleeping bag, ax, snowshoes, headlamp and a specific number of dog booties.

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