Hi Mr. Wood, this is Jad El-Jurdi from period 4. I researched Yukon Quest and found out that it started
when 4 mushers started talking about it in a saloon in 1983. They decided it should follow a historical route so they made it follow the path that prospecters used to get to Klondike for the 1898 Gold rush. they named it Yukon Quest to commemorate the Yukon river.