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Kathleen and Liam accompany their parents on a boat trip to Fort Selkirk in the Yukon. Story time just got better with Prime Book Box, a subscription that delivers editorially hand-picked She lives at Lake Laberge, near Whitehorse.
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- What's Included
- Wild, wonderful and cheap Yukon family canoe float trips | Juneau Empire
- Yukon River
- Yukon River Trip Details
The alpenglow and subsequent sunset at am were incredible.
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It was a trip back in time as there were artifacts from the ancient native villages intermingled with the old gold rush cabins and buildings. The evening campfire was filled with tales, stories and life lessons from a real native medicine man. It was fantastic. It was an incredible place that we will never forget. It is as remote of village as you will find in the Yukon. Accessible only by the river. Along the way we did see some incredible rock formations.
Rock that was cooled really fast as it butted up against the ice sheets. We did see some more Dahl sheep up in the cliffs along the river.
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None were ever close enough for a good picture though. We camped at Menzies location. It was a pretty uneventful day, except for the bugs!! They were horrible. The tent was covered in flys. It was unbelievable. We did meet up with some really nice folks from Saskatchewan. Wolf Tracks? We paddled a whooping 45 miles to arrive at Kirkman Creek.
The local residents there, the Taylors, have baked goods for sale and offered steak sandwiches and chili for dinner. We enjoyed grilled steak sandwiches, homemade Rootbeer, Salad and homemade bread.
Yeah, we were sure "roughing it" that night, eh? At this point, the river became a milky white soup.
Filtering water was impossible from this point on. It was rainy and wet. The water was like a thick milk chocolate color. We could hear the silt scraping along the bottoms of our boats. We paddled late into the evening and when the sun came out, we camped on a small island near Deadman Island and heard one or two wolves howling on the west bank of the river in the late evening hours. It was spectacular! We had a nice lunch at a gravel bar. We spent our last night on 12 mile island an old woodyard from back in the steamer days. After checking carefully for signs of bear on the island we deemed it safe to make camp.
Unfortunately we missed a set and we discovered them after dinner.
Wild, wonderful and cheap Yukon family canoe float trips | Juneau Empire
They looked to be a few days old and we were camped way out on the gravel bar. Surely we'd be safe :- Just to be sure we built one of the largest fires ever and danced around it like John Dunbar in "Dances With Wolves" late into the night. We made it to Dawson. What a memorable trip. We will be back to paddle some of the other rivers. There many life times of exploring to do up here in this vast, unspoiled wilderness. So there you have it. A summary of our mile Yukon River float trip. There is not room for many of the details here, but rest assured, this post will be updated over time to fill in additional holes.
It is by far, the most incredible paddle trip we've ever taken. I'd dare even say, it was even the best adventure trip in our lives. This photo was taken about 15 minutes after launching from the Lake Laberge campground. The approach of a massive storm on Lake Laberge! The contrast between the sunlit beach and the black clouds was right at the extreme range of the film I was using Kodachrome Lake Laberge from inside a limestone cave near our first-night campsite, on a beautiful north-facing gravel beach.
The hull wreckage of the sternwheeler Casca at Lower Laberge. Click here to see stills from a film of a trip down the Yukon River on the Casca. The 17 Mile woodyard on the Thirty Mile River. When the steamboats were running on the river, there were dozens of these camps along the river to supply fuelwood. It happened again this time louder and just in front of camp.
What the hell was that? The third time it was farther down the river, moving faster than any animal or man could move.
Yukon River
We did not rest well that night. It was not until we reached Dawson that we learned the sad fate of the village of Little Salmon. Shortly after the turn of the century the missionaries had asked that they move their village to the other side of the Little Salmon River to be able to build a church and school. The old shaman of the village told the people not to do so, that it would bring bad luck, but move they did, such was the power of the missionaries influence.
Within a year the entire village had died from influenza! Shortly after passing through the town of Carmacks we came to Five Finger Rapids a beautiful area with high rock walls and an arch to be seen as we shot through in the swift current.
Yukon River Trip Details
For us the rapids were of little concern but back in the day the narrow rock lined Five Finger Rapids were a significant navigational challenge for river boat captains and their crew. Several days later we arrived at Fort Selkirk on a lovely warm sunny day. Archaeological evidence shows that the site has been in use for at least 8, years. The Hudson's Bay Company built a trading post in Camping on one of the many sandbar islands in the river has several advantages; they are at the river level and the banks are not so steep, you see more wildlife there and the breeze off the river keeps the bugs down.