The route taken was 3000 km in length. Approximately 1000 km of the expedition took place in the Yukon Territory and another 2000 km in Alaska. The team set-off from Whitehorse, Yukon, and finished 100 days later in Emmonak, Alaska where the Yukon and Bering Sea merge. Other notable stops along the way were Dawson City, Circle, Fort Yukon and Marshall.

The Yukon River flows in a giant arch, surrounded by some of the most breathtaking wilderness on the planet. At Fork Yukon the Yukon River flows inside the Arctic Circle for a brief 90 km before turning southwest on the last half of its journey before emptying into the Bering Sea. The river begins narrow and very quick flowing, making river travel fast but stopping the raft becomes almost impossible. Once in Alaska, the river valley widens and at times the river can stretch over 3 km in width resulting in a more stable current where stopping is not a problem but getting going can be.

Most of the communities along the Yukon River are Native American settlements of both Indian and Inuit cultures. It is believed that the Yukon River valley was the main

immigration route for North America's first human inhabitants from Asia, crossing the Bering Land Bridge, which joined Russia to Alaska during the last two ice ages. This makes the Yukon valley the oldest inhabited land in North America.

The Yukon Valley also proved to be a critical access point to the gold fields of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. Coined by Pierre Burton as the "Last Great Gold Rush", the world was captivated by the lure of the Yukon. People from every corner of the world set out for Dawson City, most would never make it and for those who did the Yukon River would prove to be the last hurdle. Over night makeshift boats filled the Yukon River, bringing the stampeders to the gold fields of Dawson. Ironically, today the Yukon Valley is less populated than it was over a hundred years ago yet the legacy of the Klondike still echoes through the Valley with the occasional prospector cabin still visible high up on the cut-bank. Canoeists, kayakers and the occasional raft have replaced the hoards of gold prospectors who once made Dawson the second largest city in North America, west of the Mississippi River.