Yukon Quest
Updated daily throughout the Yukon Quest during the morning local news reports
The 2026 Yukon Quest 750 mile sled dog race starts and finishes in Fairbanks this year and KUAC will take you along for the tales from the trail. Shelby Herbert and Patrick Gilchrist will bring you updates from the checkpoints and Dan Bross will be giving race standing updates.
Updates air during Weekend Edition and after the KUAC morning newscasts.
KUAC coverage of the 2026 Yukon Quest is made possible by Simard Automotive, Kinross/Fort Knox, Golden Heart Emergency Physicians, Shannon and Wilson, and Northern Social Environmental Research. Thank you!
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A race official was rescued Sunday near Rampart after snow machining into overflow while out checking on musher Jonah Bacon, who was slowed by fresh snow on his way to the checkpoint.
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Yukon Quest frontrunners are taking required 24-hour layovers at the Yukon River Bridge checkpoint.
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Quest mushers are making solid progress toward the race's halfway point, buoyed by village checkpoints.
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Yukon Quest mushers face many challenges along the trail, and volunteers are there to support them.
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Mushers are moving over the first one hundred plus miles of trail after starting in Fairbanks Saturday.
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The 2021 Summit Quest 300 sled dog race eneded Tuesday in Central. KUAC's Dan Bross and trail reporter Lex Treinen have a race update. -
As the top mushers arrive at the finish in Central, mid and back of the pack racers are still trickling in and out of Circle, and the 70-mile run on Birch… -
Three mushers are running close together at the front of the Summit Quest 300 sled dog race. Dan Kaduce, Hugh Neff and Deke Naaktgeboren were at the… -
Overnight, leading mushers made the climb over 3,600-foot Rosebud Summit, positioning themselves for the even bigger challenge: Eagle Summit. Morning… -
One of the big changes to this year’s Summit Quest 300 race is the how mushers are required to rest at checkpoints and one day into the race, the rule… -
There’s no 1,000 mile Yukon Quest race between Fairbanks and Whitehorse this year. That’s of course due to pandemic Alaska-Yukon border crossing… -
The Summit Quest 300 sled dog race is set to start Saturday, but it will be going off quietly without the usual downtown Fairbanks fanfare. KUAC Quest… -
It’s been three years since 2-time past champion Hugh Neff last competed in a Yukon Quest race, but he’s signed up to run the Summit Quest 300, which… -
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02-14-20 Quest UpdateLex Treinen, KUAC (Whitehorse, Yukon) Nora Sjalin of Sweden crossed the line in 7th place to take the rookie of the year honor in…
