The Dog Powered Sports Association of the Yukon hosted the third Winterlong Twister Race of the season on March 20, 2022, along the Copper Haul Trail. The race featured three categories – 10 miles, three miles, and three miles for U16 competitors – and included skijoring, canicross and dog sledding. Weather on the day hovered near freezing with not a
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Nathaniel Hamlyn continued his team’s recent success with a wire-to-wire win in the Percy DeWolfe Memorial Race, reaching the finish line at 12:08 p.m. on March 4, 2022, for a total run time of 18 hours even over the 170-mile (275-kilometre) trail. Hamlyn said the race was “grueling” and that his team worked hard to stay on trail – particularly
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This year’s 170-mile race started earlier today in Dawson
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Sass also won the YQ350 earlier this month in Fairbanks
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Yukon musher Nathaniel Hamlyn won the Yukon Quest 100 early this morning, reaching the finish line in Braeburn at 5:39 a.m. on Feb. 20, 2022. “I’m really proud of how my team did,” Hamlyn said. “When I came into this I thought, ‘OK, it’s 100 miles but it’s a long 100 miles.’ I always try and not think it’s easy.
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The Yukon Quest 300 and Yukon Quest 100 races both got underway at Shipyards Park in Whitehorse the afternoon of Feb. 19, 2022. Teams left the starting chute in three minute intervals beginning at 3 p.m., with YQ300 mushers leaving first and YQ100 mushers starting immediately after. Mushers in the YQ100 have roughly 50 miles (80 kilometres) to time station
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The second wave of Yukon Quest races, the Yukon Quest 300 and the Yukon Quest 100, are both scheduled to start at 3 p.m. on Feb. 19, 2022, from Shipyards Park in Whitehorse. It was also a busy day on Feb. 18, with teams going through vet checks for the dogs during the day and wrapping with a mushers meeting
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The Yukon Quest 350 came to a conclusion the morning of Feb. 9, 2022, in Fairbanks, Alaska, when Jennifer LaBar and her team reached the finish chute downtown in fourth place to win the Red Lantern as the last team to finish the race. Roughly 24 hours earlier, Brent Sass won the race, while Matt Hall placed second and Deke
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Veteran musher Brent Sass won the Yukon Quest 350 at approximately 6 a.m. on Feb. 8, 2022, in Fairbanks, Alaska, with all 14 dogs still on the line. The team was led into the finish chute by Morello and Lucy, where a couple dozen spectators had woken up early and braved the -20 C temperatures to see the finish. Sass
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Wind, blowing snow help Eagle Summit live up to reputation
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