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We just got back yesterday from a 8 days Yukon river trip leaving from our front door(2km from it) in Whitehorse Yukon to Carmacks, 300km total including the entire length of lake Laberge that is just over 50 km. We left on monday the 22nd with an other family so four adults and four kids... So aged 4yo to 44yo... I'm not the best at trip reports, but I'll do my best. We were paddling 2 Esquif Miramichi, 20 feet Royalex prospector type canoe, slow and heavy, never again I will use that...

This video illustrates a classic pin-then-wrap situation with unprepared and unpracticed canoeists. Some of their errors: -- They decide to run rapids for which they probably didn't have requisite skills. -- They run rapids with at least two giant sweeper logs across the entire river, which they should have been able to scout and see from the portage trail, which they had taken a few days prior. -- They don't have painter lines on the ends of the canoe. -- They don't have their packs...

While in college in central VT, I double-majored in botany and geology. Aside from being truly fascinated by these topics, I think truthfully it was an effort to follow an educational discipline that would allow me to spend lots of time outside. One of my campus student jobs (along with being the slops guy at the tray return window in the cafeteria) was as a field collection assistant for my geology professor. He was (putting it mildly) obese- we're talking 400 lbs+! Consequently, he...