YUKON RIVER TRIP 09'

I'm am off of the river and have made my way back to Anchorage and back to work. The river trip went well! I really loved it - the best trip I have ever done. We finished the trip earlier than we thought we would have so we ended up being on the river about 20 days. We traveled from Whitehorse, YT to Circle, AK covering a distance of about 800 miles. I experienced so many things I can't really express in writing so.... I posted a ton of pictures of the trip. I hope that you enjoy the pictures and will join me next year when I do the whole Yukon river - 2000 miles in 2 months :) The little blue car we packed to the top! we really couldn't have fit anything else! In the back you can see my van crying - he really wanted to go but he was in trouble for being such a shitty van....

Getting ready to get on the lake...

Testing out the boat and the frame I built. Worked great! the frame held up well and the boat tracked great through the water.

Lake La Berdge

Some Eagles we spotted just after we got onto the Yukon from the lake

Ellen's first fish (Grayling) she was so proud!

Dinner prep - my job

Ummm.... don't ask

An old town we stopped at to "fix" the boat

loving life!

heading into 5 fingers rapids

Another fire....

My favorite picture

Looks like I got a bit of sun that day

I was SO stuck!

and finally Im out....

Ellen

The music festival...

Panning for gold with our new friend Reggie

I found some!!!!!!!

Riding a couple of the stationary bikes in the crazy hostel we camped at outside of Dawson...

The Hostel...

Some of the guys we met on the river... They were from Spain, and don't worry they were much more friendly than what they look like in this picture - I promise!

Dawson, YT

Awe... back on the River

One of the many fish wheels along the Yukon

Old Wheel at one of the history sites we stopped at

I found some rhubarb! yummy!

Panning for gold...

Ellen trying to lour a gull that kept dive bombing us...

The Yukon

That sucks! ha ha!

Contemplating life.... Ha ha - not really. I'm probably wondering what Ellen is going to make for dinner.

A view from our campsite overlooking the Yukon and 40 mile river

Chopping wood...

The town of Eagle along the Yukon was hit hard by the break up of the ice earlier this summer. The ice jammed up before the town and when the water pressure was too much it well... kind of exploded and ripped the town apart. Houses we ripped off of their foundations and thrown several hundred feet in different directions... The whole town was pretty much destroyed. So we stopped in Eagle for a day and helped a lady (Lennie) out by taking her house apart for her and sorting through the junk and the reusable wood. Some of the nails we pulled....

The clean up process...

Ellen, John, and I taking apart Lennie's house.

Leaving the town of Eagle

One of the most beautiful nights we had. It was crystal clear with great views in every direction!

Eating dinner ( cooked that night - I think the only night I cooked :) ) potato soup, it was really yummy!

Ellen fishing in 70 mile river - I think

70 Mile River

The boat!

One of the Yukon's beautiful sunsets

We went fishing and hunting for invasive plants up the Nation River. We found this great swimming hole were we washed clothes, swam, and bathed. It was a great day!

One of the many wolf tracks we saw along the river. As you can see with Ellen's foot print along side this is not a small wolf at all :)

There were so many Raspberries around the cabin! We picked SO many!

This is what we did with the raspberries we picked. Yummy!!!

This is the food cache for the cabin. pretty cool looking mini cabin to me