#tatshenshini

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As a part of Canadian Heritage Rivers Celebrations, we participated to celebrate Yukon's Tatshenshini River at Million Dollar Falls. For me, it was an honour to perform with Keitha Clark, First Nations dancers, BJ, and bagpipe musicians. Canadian Heritage and Canada 150 sponsored the event. #Tatshenshini #tatshenshiniriver #yukon #canadianhistory #canadianheritage #milliondollarfalls #cometomyyukon #travelyukon #dancer #diversity #firtnations #canada150 #canada (at Tatshenshini River)

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Tatshenshini River

Baru kali ini aku berkhayal ingin ke Benua Amerika! Sebelumnya, tak sedikit pun ada angan ingin ke sana. Tapi membaca sebuah cerita yang di dalamnya menggambarkan betapa indahnya Tatshenshini di Alaska, Amerika Serikat. Aku bermimpi untuk kesana. Katanya, kala senja, kilau sungainya serupa emas. Bayangkan betapa indahnya itu.

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Day 10 & 11: Alsek Lake

Day 10 & 11: Alsek Lake

Here it is, our last night of the trip. (Presumably. We still need to get to the take out and hope the weather is good enough to fly out to Haines.) It’s so hard to believe. On the one hand this trip has flown by; Sediments Creek doesn’t seem like that long ago, and in reality was only a week ago, but it also feels like we’ve been on this river forever. In a good way. But I am ready for a shower!…

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Day 8 & 9: Walker Glacier

Day 8 & 9: Walker Glacier

The good weather holds. When we woke up yesterday morning the sky was newborn blue. Unfortunately I had a headache to greet it; just one of my normal ones that I get periodically. It was a bitch to get up and about, though. But, we did make it to Petroglyph Island! After a short walk around and up the island, we found the main petroglyph. Surprisingly it was on the ground, and it’s pretty worn.…

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Day 6: Melt Creek

Day 6: Melt Creek

It’s the end of our sixth day. We only have five left!

Today has been a really awesome day. First off, I finally got to relax in bed this morning instead of waking up and making breakfast. We didn’t have a long float, so we went on a walk up the Towagh Creek drainage. Not too far in, I thought I saw something moving out of the corner of my eye. I glanced over at it, and a big old brown bear was…

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Day 5: Towagh Creek

Day 5: Towagh Creek

What a day! The river picked up speed and gained a lot of volume which makes the floats a lot more fun and a lot more…exciting. We ran Monkey Wrench Rapid today, and then the “creeks” (which are rivers by normal standards) literally quadrupled the size of the Tat. We stopped in a few places, but ended up camping here at Towagh Creek. There is zeroeddy, so the landing was fast. We were the third…

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Day 3 & 4: Sediments & Alkie Creek

Day 3 & 4: Sediments & Alkie Creek

Finally, some down time. Yesterday as one fat rush of getting up and making huevos rancheros for everyone, cleaning up, then going on our hike. I started at the front with my mom and Debra, but by the time we started going straight up I fell to the middle of the pack line with Chris.

The first knob was supposedly half-way up, but it definitely wasn’t! We got some beautiful views of the oxbows up…

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Day 2: Sediments Creek

Day 2: Sediments Creek

Looking back at yesterday’s entry, it’s hard to believe we were in the front country getting ready to put in. Today, our first full day on the river, feels like it was endless–in a good way–but it also feels like this river is all there is, like we will always be rafting and living out of dry bags and eating a lot of fresh salmon. I love it!

Yesterday’s whitewater went very smoothly. I was…

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