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Scenario 3
You pull out of the McCabe Creek checkpoint, and both you and your dogs are well-rested. You immediately pull onto the Yukon River. The ice is smooth for ten miles, but you suddenly turn a corner and hit jumble ice for as far as you can see. Jumble ice is formed when an ice jam…
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Scenario 2
You leave McCabe Creek heading to Pelly, making it through the jumble ice with no problems. The dogs are just moving along. You come around a bend in the river and there is a team pulled off to the side with the musher taking everything out of his sled bag, muttering and looking extremely worried.…
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Scenario 1
This is your rookie race (your first Yukon Quest race) and the Yukon Quest starts in Whitehorse this year. You have 1700 training miles on the dogs with lots of long 100 mile overnight trips in cold weather with rough terrain. You are concerned about the six 2- and 3-year old dogs in the team…
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Yukon Quest Writing Challenge
Here are some Yukon Quest story starter scenarios. Click on a number to read the scenario. Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Scenario 3 Scenario 4 Scenario 5 Scenario 6 Scenario 7 Scenario 8 Scenario 9 Scenario 10
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Math Answer Key
About sixteen minutes Three times (the initial start doesn't count as a "stop") Junior, Smokey, Chief, Razor One neckline 100 square feet 12 brown dogs It was 38 degrees warmer in Two Rivers. $8.65 for the food. The tip was $1.30. About 3 days (more precisely 2.85 days) About 15 hours 4 hours and 25…
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Yukon Quest Math Challenge
Here are some Yukon Quest Math word problems. Give them a try and then use the Answer Key link to check your work. Members can Submit your own math questions. Use the Contact Form.1. Mushers must put booties on dogs to protect their feet from sharp ice on the trail and to keep the dogs from getting painful…
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Yukon Quest Reading Challenge
Nancy Dilley from Minneota Public Schools, Minnesota share her school wide "I Love the Read" month activity. The objective of this reading game is for the students to challenge the Yukon Quest teams to the finish line. A team or class of students must read faster than the mushers and their dogs can travel down…
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Weather Tracking Activity
Select a checkpoint to chart and graph for one week. Then check the weather for that checkpoint each day using the weather links below. Make note of the high and low temperatures on your chart. Plot those points on your graph. Be sure to use a different color pencil for high and low. That way…
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Activities
Here are some activities we hope you will find helpful. If you have created a new activity, or improved one of these, please share them with others by sending them into us with the Contact Form.
