Yukon Quest 2020

For the second year in a row, Eureka musher Brent Sass has won the Yukon Quest sled dog race, after he and 11 dogs pulled into Whitehorse at 1:51 (AKST) Tuesday afternoon. According to the Quest race chart, his total time is 10 days, 2 hours and 9 minutes. In live coverage from the Yukon…

Barring catastrophe, Brent Sass will repeat as champion in this year’s Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race, making this his second Quest win in-a-row. The mushing legend struck out from Braeburn at 10:37 AKST last night and hasn’t looked back. At the time of this update, Sass is less than eleven miles from the finish…

The mad dash to the finish is on and last year’s Yukon Quest champion Brent Sass has a commanding lead on 2nd position Michelle Phillips in the 2020 race. Sass completed his mandatory 8-hour layover in Braeburn, the final checkpoint on the Quest trail, and began racing again after 10:30pm AKST last night. Phillips was…

Snowfall greeted Brent Sass and his 11 dog team in Braeburn at 2:37pm AKST. But before the snow could cover their tracks, Michelle Phillips and her 11 dogs came in roughly thirty minutes later at 3:13pm: to the last checkpoint in the 2020 Yukon Quest International Sled Dog race. Phillips is striving to overtake Sass…

Brent Sass and Michelle Phillips remain neck-and-neck as the leaders of the 2020 Yukon Quest bear down on Braeburn, the race’s final checkpoint. Officially, Phillips remains in first position after checking out of Carmacks this morning at exactly midnight, narrowly avoiding turning into a pumpkin. While the veteran musher is no Cinderella candidate in the…

A pair of scratches and an injury scare have highlighted the last few days of the Yukon Quest. Over the weekend, Dave Dalton and Chase Tingle both elected to scratch in Dawson City. Coming to the same conclusion within almost ten minutes of each other, both cited a stomach virus was affecting their teams, saying…

Michelle Philips arrived into Carmacks late last night, disappearing into the night before Brent Sass had a chance to catch up. But according to the unofficial GPS tracker, as of 8am, Sass is right on Phillips’ heels less than 200 miles from the Yukon Quest finish line. By the time Phillips reached Pelly Crossing yesterday morning,…

Activity picked up in Dawson City this afternoon with three more teams stopping at the halfway checkpoint to begin their 36 hours of rest. Rob Cooke and Richie Beattie pulled into Dawson together with Cooke just a moment ahead at 12:17pm, followed by Beattie at 12:18pm in Alaska time. Pat Noddin joined the pack in…

As the back half of the Yukon Quest pack continues to trickle into Dawson City, the leaders are enjoying some much-needed rest and respite. Aliy Zirkle, a Yukon Quest winner and Allen Moore’s mushing partner, is currently supporting Moore as handler in this race. She told Quest staff yesterday in a video that this point…

Seven mushers have arrived into Dawson City, the halfway point in the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest, and that includes the first rookie. Nora Sjalin of Sweden joined Brent Sass, Michelle Phillips, Cody Strathe, Allen Moore, Torsten Kohnert, and Ryne Olson in her 36-hour mandatory layover just before 7am PST. All mushers in the field of 13…