The Great Northern Canada Bucket List by Robin Esrock

Author:Robin Esrock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2016-01-11T16:00:00+00:00

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Hell’s Gate, Deadmen Valley, Funeral Range, Headless Creek: rafting the South Nahanni River sounds lawless, wild and untamed. It’s certainly attracted its fair share of adventurers, from crusty prospectors and Pierre Trudeau to today’s modern bucket-lister. Awaiting all is five hundred kilometres of untouched Northwest Territories, comprising vast mountain chains, 1,400-metre-high canyons, evergreen forests and twisting waterways. It’s not easy to get there: first you have to get to Yellowknife, then fly or drive to Fort Simpson, and from there charter a float plane over the Nahanni mountain range to the base of Virginia Falls. It’s quite the starting line: a spectacular ninety-six-metre-high waterfall, almost twice the height of Niagara Falls. Early explorers wrote how they could hear its thunder from more than thirty kilometres away. Bucket-listers — as opposed to hard-core rafters, who might start much farther up the river — typically employ the services of professional raft operators who take care of the logistics, portages, cooking, and rafting. All you have to do is go along for the ride, and although you’ll pass rapids (including one eight-kilometre stretch and a particular churning soup called the Figure Eight, or Hell’s Gate), professional help means the excursion is manageable for virgin rafters.

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