Nahanni River Adventures is one of my favourite operators in Canada’s north. I have always dreamt on going on one of Neil’s trips, especially his Tashenshini trip, since I used to live right at the source of the Tatshenshini on Chilkat Pass. The Edmonton Journal just published a great article on the origins of his company.

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Watching the river f low
ED STRUZIK EDMONTON
Edmonton Journal
09 Mar 2008

In the summer of 1984, at age, 23, Neil Hartling headed up to Nahanni National Park in the Northwest Territories from his home in Edmonton to experience and paddle a river that had haunted him since he was 15 years old. Two things happened that summer… read more…

I uploaded a few of my images from the Yukon recently. Kluane, Dawson City and the Dempster are still my favourite parts of the territory.

Many people have heard of the Iditarod dogsled race (”Alaska, where men are men and women win the Iditarod”), but the lesser-known Yukon Quest, from Whitehorse to Fairbanks, Alaska, is actually quite a bit tougher, because of the terrain and the cold. The trail follows the historic Gold Rush and Mail Delivery routes from the turn of the 20^th Century, leading from Whitehorse north to Dawson city, and then west across the Alaska border to Fairbanks.