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Tatshenshini River

Dates

  • July 15-24, 2010
  • July 28-August 6, 2010

Price

  • $4800 + GST CAD

Description

In 1993 the Province of BC designated the Northwestern corner of British Columbia a Class A Provincial Park. This was the final piece of the puzzle in making the combined areas of Kluane National Park in the Yukon, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in Alaska to the South, and the Wrangle / St. Elias National Park in Alaska, the largest protected area on earth.

The following year the area as a whole was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, making it the largest one in the world.

The river flows 10 days from the historic trading site known as Dalton Post in the Yukon, through BC, and the Alaskan Panhandle to end at a small fishing cannery at Dry Bay on the Pacific Ocean. The river connects the Interior Plateau with the Pacific Ocean bisecting the St. Elias Mountains which contain the world's largest non-polar ice caps and some of the planet's most spectacular scenery. The region is home to a completely intact ecosystem making wildlife viewing second to none. Grizzly Bear, Mountain Goat, Moose, Bald Eagle, multiple species of Salmon, a plethora of unique wildflowers including entire mountainsides painted in pink fireweed (Yukon's Territorial flower), and Arctic Terns are just some of the abundant natural history waiting to be experienced by our guests. From drifting through Quiet Canyon in the vast Spruce Forests of the Interior to paddling by giant icebergs and walking on glaciers or being dwarfed by 15,600 foot Mt. Fairweather while standing at sea level, or witnessing history in action as a giant tributary deposits sediment on an expansive flower covered gravel bar, the geologic phenomena awaiting is nothing short of breath taking.

  • This trip has been described numerous times as one of the top 10 river trips in the world.

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