Support crews need to become familiar with all of this information to help your team prepare and stay safe! C heck out the SUPPORT CREWS link above.ĬURRENT COVID HEALTH & TRAVEL MANDATES: Check often!
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Also check out the RACER GUIDE and various items under the RULES & PREPARATION drop-down menu above, such as following best practices on the river and while camping, how much food and fluids are needed to sustain you in a long river race, and other essential tips to help you finish racer and support crew briefings a nd our FAQs to learn more about navigation, insurance requirements, how to support your team at Carmacks, how to get back from Dawson, and more. Read the Preamble about what you will experience out there, and how to prepare for this tough wilderness race. Note: These COVID Rules are subject to change as we get closer to the race.
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YRMPAīE PREPARED – THIS IS A TOUGH WILDERNESS PADDLING RACE! READ RULES & RACER GUIDE: Become familiar with the full YRQ RULES (2022 – watch for 2023 rules later this year) and the new HALF QUEST RULES. A change in start date to a time when water levels are less volatile helps all of us. There is still ‘midnight sun’ with a July 4 start.Īs a Board, we make changes to the race in an effort to improve the event for everyone involved. Lastly, over the years, we have had requests to move to a date after the K-12 school system is out for the summer. Dawson hoteliers have also asked us to avoid being there the July 1 weekend if possible, as they are already short of rooms then.
Should a community or First Nation government say to us “please don’t come, we’re busy with flooding” or be evacuated by emergency officials, we could not proceed with the race. Communities along the river, particularly Carmacks, and to a lesser extent, Dawson, have significant flooding risks. Race date considerations must include our local communities.
Pushing the race date out, based on historic flow data, increases our chances of avoiding flooding situations. Historic water flow data shows water levels stabilizing or dropping by mid-late June. The same weather pattern of the last two years is predicted again for the upcoming winter and spring.įor our own planning, and yours as racers, we need to do what we can to lower the uncertainty/risk for the race. There have been two 100-year flood situations in the last two years. It does mean that high precipitation years are more common. This doesn’t mean that every year will be high water. The weather patterns are changing: we are getting more precipitation in general and more snow in particular. We’ve had a few questions from racers wondering why we changed the race date. Several factors were part of this decision: racers, changing weather patterns here, and, very importantly, the needs of the communities we work with along the route. 3 issued the following statement explaining the moving of the race date from mid-June to early July: And for an in-depth account of Yukon First Peoples, read this ECHO (Ethnographic, Cultural, Historical Overview) handbook.
To learn more about First Nations heritage on the river, see this River History from Yukon Schools. Our race honours their culture and those who have lived off the river and nurtured it for centuries. The Yukon River passes through Five First Nations on our race route: Kwanlin Dun, Ta’an Kwachan Council, Little Salmon/Carmacks, Selkirk, and Trondek Hwechin. Please fully explore our site for information on how to participate in this great event, whether as a racer, a member of a support crew, or as a volunteer. It is open to solo and tandem canoes and kayaks, solo stand-up paddle boards (SUPs, and bigger C4 and Voyageur canoes. Paddlers come from around the world to test their endurance, racing day and night to the Klondike on one of North America’s great rivers. The Yukon River Quest is an annual marathon paddling race. Welcome to the official Yukon River Quest web site.
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