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100 years of Prospectors

I don't have Peter's diary, but I have Joe Lanouette's notes. Peter was certainly a hero, and saved several lives. Let me know if you find it.

I think I listed before two books on a 1955 river tragedy on the Dubawnt River in northern Canada, where the leader, Art Moffat, died of hypothermia following dumping in a rapid. This tale was written up in two books, Death on the Barrens by George Grinnell, and Barren Grounds by Skip Pessl...

What route were you trying that hasn't been climbed since? I could see Mt. Blackburn from near my house when I lived in Alaska.

I've been climbing since about 1980, and still do--ice, rock, mountains. Of course I've slowed down (now 65), but I still get out, less so primarily due to a lack of good partners and just waning interest (primarily due to a lack of good partners--partnership is a big thing with older climbers...

Just to be contrary. This is a canoe TRIPPING site, right? Thelon River, Nunavut a couple of weeks ago. Day 36 of 42.

I think I'll portage that one. Dubawnt Canyon, Nunavut last month.

Lots of Hilleberg tents on Dubawnt Lake, Nunavut last month.

Any luck with the packrafters? I've heard they're good eating, though maybe a bit lean.

That was about the time I was paddling the Nantahala in my Mark IV (Romer helmet, Seda pfd). Ironically, I met Willian Nealy in southern Utah about 1980. He was camping in a state park where I got my showers (my place didn't have running water). I always loved his cartoons.

I fractured C7 in April 1999, and had a fusion and discectomy. Although I wasn't doing much paddling at the time (broke it backcountry skiing), I was skiing the next season, and doing lots of things I shouldn't have throughout the summer (glissading (!), travel in rough country). I'm sure youth...

That's great! We'll be headed up there in about three weeks. But we plan on being back waaaaaay sooner! I'm reading one of the participant's (Lanouille's) journal now, and have read the other two books. It's an interesting tale.

Another potential option: I had a Bending Branches Expedition Plus paddle that had their "RockGuard" a ways up the throat, presumably to protect from gunwale rub Expedition Plus. The extension was pretty innocuous, and much lower profile than anything mentioned. To be high tech and low...

I like your site better!

Ironically, Montana is clear. Where I'm headed in Nunavut/NWT has been getting inundated with smoke. Here's an excellent website with realtime smoke I've been monitoring: Smoke Map

I, too, referenced the wrong thread, thinking it was Pseudonym's. I guess we're even.

And then there was Thor Heyerdahl's opposite trip on the Kon Tiki--going from South America to Polynesia. There's way too much history, pre-history and theories for my feeble mind to process. Personally, I like to stay in sight of land.

I think he was replying to Pseudonym's other post regarding Into the Wild. The bus that McCandless used (and died in) was flown out of the Alaskan backcountry because a lot of people got in trouble trying to get to it.

This piqued my interest as the canoe was sailing in my old stomping grounds in Alaska. Hawaiian sailing canoe in Alaska Here's some info on the canoe itself: Hawaiian sailing canoe, and on Pacific sailing canoes in general Pacific sailing canoes. According to Dr. Wiki, they've been used for...