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YUKON ARCTIC ULTRA Hello everyone,
it’s about time for another newsletter.
New contact details for the GREAT OUTDOORS My company, the GREAT OUTDOORS, which puts on the YAU has moved from Munich to Mittenwald. For those of you who don’t know where that is, it’s at the border between Germany and Austria, not far away from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It’s in the Alps and when I look out my windows I can see the beautiful Karwendel Mountains. Now I just need to find the time to get out there … Please find my new contact details at the bottom of this page.
YAU 2006 will start on Feb. 11th Next year's race will start in Whitehorse once again. The date for the start is Feb. 11th, the same day the Quest mushers start from Fairbanks, USA.
YAU 2006 now open for registrations The entry fees for the marathon, 100 and 300 miles are the same as they were this year. However, from now on the entry fee will include the USARA single event membership and insurance. For more information on that insurance please have a look at www.usara.com/membership.aspx. Also, the entry will include a video documentary powered by Yukon Images (www.yukonimages.com).
All entrants from now on have to make an immediate first payment of EUR 150. We have made this change because there were a lot of last minute cancellations for 2005. If you decide to withdraw at any point, the EUR 150 are our administration fee and will not be refunded. Apart from that we also have rules for cancellations once certain deadlines are past. This information is available on our Application & Waiver forms.
Online registration and payment through www.eventrate.com are available now. Should you have any question or problems please do not hesitate to contact me at info@thegreatoutdoors.de.
Canadian athletes please, contact Shelley Gellatly regarding entry fees and details (train@internorth.com).
Dawson City it is! Yes, it is true. We will offer a race all the way to Dawson City next year. Together with the extra 6 miles due to our loop for the marathon that is a distance of 472 miles. I am currently working out the details. Already now I can say that in order to go all the way to Dawson, athletes will have to be very experienced. We will likely only accept entries from athletes who have completed the 300 mile distance or an equally long distance in a similar race. Other possibilities to qualify would be to have extensive cold weather experience from extreme mountain climbing, expeditions, etc.
After Pelly Farms the scenery becomes even more remote. There is no road access and the Quest checkpoints are far apart. We will have additional checkpoints. However, these may be very simple camps - possible even without any volunteers or staff - just a place where you can build a fire and get warmed up. The time limit for the race distance of 470 miles to Dawson is 13 days. That means 5 additional days of racing to do 150 more miles. This part of the trail is very remote and there is considerable elevation but 5 days should be sufficient, based on our experience so far. For early entries the fee for this race is EUR 1,700. More details for Dawson City will follow over the next few weeks.
YAU 2005 documentary Werner is currently working on a DVD/VHS documentary of this year’s YAU. He is a perfectionist and I know it will be a great film. If you are interested, please contact Werner at Yukon Images directly (info@yukonimages.com). It’s a great way to get some impressions if you are thinking about participating in 2006!
Details for Skjoring As you may have already noticed, we are offering a new discipline: Skijoring. This requires some extra rules and preparations. We will work this out over the next weeks and post it on the website. As soon as the information is available, I will send out a quick newsflash, too.
Race reports and photos Matt Pain wrote a very interesting report about his 300 mile experience this year. It is available online. Just go to the “Race Info” section and click on “Race Reports”.
Also, this weekend I updated the photo gallery. You can now see all pictures that Dave Milne took and I included Ralf Jacobi’s photographs. Ralf participated in the 300 mile race. More pictures will follow shortly.
Problems with the domain should be solved A lot more people than I thought had problems with the arcticultra.de website. It seems that the forwarding to a Number-Proxy has caused the problem. Firewalls did not really like that. There is no more forwarding now and I hope you all can enjoy the website. Any problems, please let me know!
Best regards
Robert Pollhammer Race Director
the GREAT OUTDOORS Frühlingstr. 30 82481 Mittenwald Germany
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