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The story of a long weekend in Alaska. Should be enough to whet your appetite but not quite enough to obviate your own research before embarking on it. The Tangle Lakes - Delta River, a National Wild and Scenic River, is one the classic interior canoe routes in Alaska. It's got a bit of everything, as you shall see, can be paddled in a long weekend, is suitable for relative beginners, but at their own peril, as you shall also see. The drive from Anchorage, to the BLM campground at the put...

A fresh day, almost too hot out, and it smelled fishy at the outlet of the last lake into the Delta River proper. I broke out my little spinning rig, tied on a yellow Rooster Tail (I had already swapped out that nasty treble hook for a single, clinched the barb too) and promptly caught 5 Grayling on my first 5 casts. It was too early in the day to keep them for dinner, thus the single clinched barb hook. It's not too far down the river before we hit the portage trail, which wanders...

Day 3 finds us again floating casually down the Delta, it widens out, slows down, more flatwater than quickwater, as if it were impounded. In actuality it is. Eureka Creek, a glacial river, enters on river left, and the outwash delta pushes the Delta far up against the bluff on river right, impounding the flow. This photo shows where the very first glacial water from Eureka Creek filters through the outwash delta and enters the Delta River. For those who have never paddled a glacial...