Yukon River Wilderness Canoe Trip
Ive been back from the Yukon Territory in Canada, from a canoe trip down the Yukon River with Bushcraft Yukon for a couple of months. But havent had a chance to post my trip report. So here it is.
Everyone calls Alaska the last frontier. The people say this, havent been to the Yukon. Alaska has a total area of 663,268 sq. miles with a population of 743,812. Thats one person to every 0.89 of a sq. mile. Even removing the population of Anchorage, in which is 301,010. That still comes out to one person every 1.5 sq. miles. Alaska has 148 towns, settlements and cites listed on Wikipedia. Now lets look at the true last frontier in North America. The Yukon has a total area of 186,272 sq. miles with a population of 35,874. That computes to 1 person every 5.19 sq. miles in the Yukon. Seventy-Eight percent (27,889 people) of the population of the Yukon lives in the City of Whitehorse, within a 3,277.59 sq. mile area. That computes to 78% of the population in only 2% of the land mass of the Yukon. That now comes out to one person every 22.91 sq. miles. The Yukon Territory has 8 towns, settlements and cites listed on Wikipedia. Being a Canadian I didnt know this myself. Thats a lot of WILDERNESS to play in. So, Ive finished my James A Michener similar introduction to the area of the trip.
On to the Wilderness Canoe Trip.
On Saturday, June 10th
I flew into Whitehorse and was meet at the airport by Fabian. We did a little running around in Whitehorse then a 50 minute drive to Bushcraft Yukons base of operations. Bushcraft Yukon base of operations is located in a beautiful spot in the boreal forest, with pine, spruce and aspen trees in abundance. The weather was unseasonably warm at 34c or 93f for this time of year. Fabian helped me with my gear down to the primitive camping area to set up for the night. The other adventures, in which arrived a week earlier, for a week of Bushcraft and survival training with Bushcraft Yukon. These gentalmen were out on a road trip to Haines, and a hike in Kluane National Park and Reserve. After setting up my tent and getting my sleeping pad and bag set up. I took a little break seeing Id been on the go for 12 hours already. I made a Koolyomka Trap Trigger to show the others a different trigger. By now it was time for dinner so I proceeded up to the house and had dinner with Fabian and Claudia.
Its hard to get used to almost continuous sun light. The time was almost 11 PM and it was still bright out. I was getting tired so off to the tent for a nights sleep.