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Breakup! Fort Reliance, Yukon River, 2006 In 1993, Kathleen and I sold our suburban home in North Vancouver and moved to a one-acre, ocean-side retreat on Pender Island, approximately halfway between Vancouver and Victoria. Here we intended to live a rural life-style, with days devoted to ocean paddling, walks on forest trails to coffee shops, gardening and ‘doing as we pleased.’ At first Kathleen and I were very happy. We both believed that we would never leave Pender Island, a place...

Kathleen and I are considering paddling the Yukon River next summer from Whitehorse to Dawson City. This assumes that we can find a sitter for our Siberian husky. I know that people on this site have paddled the Yukon. In your opinion, what is the best time of year for this trip? I have also read that Five Finger Rapids, on river-right, is no more than Class II. Do you agree with this? Thanks.

Teslin and Yukon Rivers- 13 days in a working wilderness Part I Johnson’s Crossing to Carmacks – 6 days We were a party of two in a rented Wenonah Cascade. 17 foot 6 inches of Royalex fat beast rented from Kanoe People in Whitehorse. We had driven cross North America and somehow” lost” two canoes in Ohio so we needed to rent for our trip( Our journey took 20,000 km over 65 days and we did not want to drag boats with us). Kanoe People shuttled us back southeast on the Alaska Highway for...