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Yukon Quest
Updated daily throughout the Yukon Quest during the morning local news reports

Tune in for daily coverage of the 2025 Yukon Quest starting with a pre-race analysis, Friday, January 31st. Listen for updates from the KUAC Trail reporters after the local news.

Hear all the fascinating ‘tales from the trail’ with KUAC’s coverage of the 42nd Yukon Quest. Thanks to our lead sponsor Simard Automotive, Kinross/Fort Knox, Golden Heart Emergency Physicians, Sipping Streams Tea Company, Shannon and Wilson, Auto Trim Design Alaska, Water Wagon, and Warbelow's Air for their generous support of Quest coverage on KUAC FM!

  • Yukon Quest 2025 wraps up
    The last two mushers finished the race in Tok last night. Joey Sabin got to the finish at 8:39 p.m. Friday, and Keaton Loebrich was the Red Lantern at 10:34 p.m. for a total of six days, 11 hours and 34 minutes.The 80-mile, 200-mile and other 550-mile racers enjoyed the finisher's award banquet in Fairbanks, celebrating the mushers, the volunteers and the sport of mushing.
  • Deeter wins 2025 Yukon Quest 550
    Jeff Deeter is the winner of the 2025 Alaska Yukon Quest 550-mile race, and four more mushers have finished the race in Tok.He crossed the finish line at 2:49 p.m. yesterday. It took him five days, three hours and 49 minutes to complete the trail.
  • Last checkpoint and last layover for most, a scratch for two, and a likely win for one today
    It looks like the Yukon Quest may be won as early as Thursday afternoon, as Jeff Deeter is keeping up an average 7-mile-per-hour pace.
  • Eagle checkpoint is back for first time since 2020, and is a community affair
    There is something like 312 dogs in the different divisions of the Yukon Quest this year; some of them think they are the boss. And Eagle teenagers train to be checkpoint volunteers.
  • Jumble ice makes difficult, slow trail on Yukon River
    All of the teams running the 550 miles to Tok are now out on the Yukon River ice. Another 200-miler scratched early yesterday, and the last finisher in that division came in.
  • Yukon Quest 200 finishes, eight teams head to Circle for the 550
    There is a winner in the Yukon Quest Alaska 200-mile race, and one of the mushers in that division has scratched – the rest will likely finish today in Central. Everyone in the race is over the dreaded Rosebud and Eagle Summits, and the first mushers in the 550-mile event hit the ice of the Yukon River today.
  • Snowy trail good for three races, bad on Steese Highway for handlers
    27 Yukon Quest teams left Fairbanks yesterday. The leaders have made their way into the third checkpoint of the 550-mile race, but their handlers are stalled on the Steese Highway as an avalanche closed the road Saturday.
  • Yukon Quest AK 2025 Start Line with Robyne
  • Meet the Mushers, 2025
    The Yukon Quest Alaska starts Saturday in Fairbanks with three sled-dog races – the 80-mile Fun Run, the 200-mile middle-distance event and the big 550-mile course to Tok. Race officials held a “Meet the Mushers” get-together Thursday night, and each racer’s name was drawn to determine the starting order for their event.
  • Meet the Mushers, 2025
    The Yukon Quest Alaska starts Saturday in Fairbanks with three sled-dog races – the 80-mile Fun Run, the 200-mile middle-distance event and the big 550-mile course to Tok. Race officials held a “Meet the Mushers” get-together Thursday night, and each racer’s name was drawn to determine the starting order for their event.