Canoeing the mighty Yukon River: From its confluence with the Big Salmon to Dawson
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- Canoeing the Yukon River from its confluence with the Big Salmon River. 10 days of wilderness canoe travel Dawson City. In part 1 we paddled from Quiet Lake to the confluence in 7 days.
NOTE: the print at 24.48 is a wolf print NOT bear. I dragged in the wrong image. Thanks to a couple of viewers who, very gently, pointed this out to me.
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The story of our trip on the Big Salmon and Yukon rivers feature in The Paddler Magazine
To outfit the trip we used: upnorthadventures.com
Thank you to the Rourkes for permission to use pages from their wonderful guidebooks to the Big Salmon and Yukon. Accurate and so so informative on the history of the rivers: www.riversnorthonline.com
The large scale maps are courtesy of: © OpenStreetMap contributors
Copyright details are: www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
Many thanks to Karts Huseonica for getting the photos of the shop at Carmacks and of the Campground facilities.
I took both a biography and the poems of Robert Service on my trip. A real flavour of the Yukon.
I am using gear by www.nrs.com
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A great trip that I did 50 years ago before it got popular. Interesting how the journey has been modernized. Great video!
Thank you. Wow I can imagine so different. I struggled at first with so many people, it didn’t feel like wilderness. But I got my head around it and really enjoyed the history and yep meeting some of our fellow travelers.
Amazing! I paddled the Yukon from Whitehorse to Dawson in 2013. Your video brought back a lot of great memories. The year I did it they "closed" the river just before Carmacks because of a forest fire. When we paddled through the smoke was so thick we couldn't see anything, just let the current carry us along. By not getting his feet wet, Patrick is missing out on the squishy, squishy mud on the banks of the river! I loved sinking my barefeet into that mud - best pedicure around!
Glad you enjoyed it! I will pass on the advice on pedicures to Patrick but I don't think it will sway him at all for future trips. Worst forest fire I experienced was on the Bloodvein River when fires reignited due to strong winds. We spent an anxious night on a rocky spur with a watch kept all night, fortunately the wind dropped and we could paddle through in the morning. Thanks for commenting.
Fantastic trip! I love the historically relevant poetry to give even more ambiance. A bit like campfire tales on the move 😄
Many thanks! Yep I took a biography of Robert Service and his Yukon River poems on the trip. Awesome companions.
Thanks for sharing another river adventure with us Ray 👍👍
You are most welcome
It looks like a wonderful, pleasant, trip. I used to work as a canoe guide during the summers, in Minnesota and Canada. Videos such as this help me get through the summers, as I have not had the time to go canoeing. This also brings back some fond memories for me. Thank you.
You are most welcome. Glad it brought some great memories back.
Once upon a time that trip was a fantasy of mine but alas no time or money then now when I have enough of both age has probably won out. Enjoyed your video and commentary very much.
Hi Martin, a touch of sadness reading your post. Age has caught up with me too, my heart and knees both have problems. Going to see what I can do over the next years. The Yukon is not very physical as the current pushes you along at a good rate other than on Lake Labarge. If you do it, allow plenty of time and enjoy. So wishing you the very best and hoping it is possible. And thanks for your kind comments.
Rubber boots keep your feet dry too LOL. Cinnamon buns are famous at the Cinnamon Strip coffee shop...Fantastic video!
I will pass the rubber boots advise onto Patrick 😅 Trouble is I think he likes the challenge. Cinnamon buns 😋 And thank you for you kind comment.
Hermoso viaje !! Y hermosos lugares!!🙌👏👏🫂🇺🇾
Thank you so much!
The cinnamon buns looked to have been very welcome. Amazing scenery, thanks for sharing the journey.
Yep they were an absolute delight. Thanks for commenting.
Well done Ray for getting this uploaded! Thank you very much.
Finally got there. Thanks
Flat water nearly all the way? No rock gardens? You had amazing weather too. Wow! That looked like Dall sheep, not goats. Nice film.
Hi Karen. Thank you for your kind comments. It may well have been Dall Sheep so you will have to forgive an ignorant Brit. Regards
Thoroughly enjoyed this, thank you!
Thank you 😊
Nice video Ray.
When we were last on Canada we baked our own cinnamon buns with a reflector oven. It was just about worth the extra load.
That would work on the Yukon with no portages. I am now at the stage where I am very careful if there a lot of portages. Cheers
Ray, what can I say, absolutely amazing, what a beautiful trip, the fact that you managed to visit the historic sites that were made by the river for the river is amazing, this would be my kind of journey, not just the river but what surrounds it.
Thankyou for the time you have put into producing this, I have waited a long time for part two and was not disappointed.
Hope you and your family are well and Billy is still bonkers 👍👍☕☕❤
Nige.
Hi Nigel, thank you so much for your kind comments and patience. For a number of reasons this one did my head in and I had to totally reorganise the files to make headway. Did it in the end. So many thanks. Yep family are good and Billie is still Billie..... Bonkers at times.
@@RayGoodwinCanoe love and good wishes to you all, this yiear is not good because of elderly family, looking for some faster river and eddie training next year, maybe more,
👍👍☕☕🐒🐺🐂🐧🐧, hey its just north Wales 💕💕💕
You feel like an exile at first;
You hate it like hell for a season,
And then you are worse than the worst.
It grips you like some kinds of sinning;
It twists you from foe to a friend;
It seems it’s been since the beginning;
It seems it will be to the end.
Thank you for this upload, the Ray Mears in me is smiling
It’s the great, big, broad land ’way up yonder,
It’s the forests where silence has lease;
It’s the beauty that thrills me with wonder,
It’s the stillness that fills me with peace.
😁 Thank you so much for that. Keep well
Excellent Ray. I was always curious about the beach approach at Dawson City.
Thank you for including Robert William Service in your video.
Glad you enjoyed it. I look forward to your film in due course. Keep well my friend.
Classic trip Ray !
Thank you
Not bad
I watched both parts
👍🏻🔥🚶🏼
Thank you
Looks like a great trip Ray. Would love to see more of your adventures.
Thank you. Lots of stuff on my channel. Expeditions are in a separate playlist there and I would recommend the Round Mull trip as something different.
fantastic journey and story-telling!! thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you so much for your kind comments. Appreciated
Brilliant Ray, that sand storm looked intense. As a Dawson I’ve always wanted to visit Dawson city.
You have got to do it. Photograph next to as many Dawson City signs as possible. Fascinating place as well.
Great video Ray . Incredible scenery. Looks like you all had a fantastic trip
It was! Took a few days to get used to it after being on the amazing Big Salmon River, had to get used to sharing it with other people and the big open space. But it was very good.
Thank you Sir for another great video
Appreciated. Thank you
Thoroughly enjoyed your trip! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for that. Appreciated.
Excellent! Love the contextual recitals.
Glad you enjoyed it Sue. Thanks
Cool trip, loved the video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video and another trip I'd love to do.
It should be on the bucket list. Enjoy when you do it.
Nice record of a fabulous trip!
Many thanks! Appreciated
Brilliant
Thank you
My home, love it so much!
I bet it is awesome in the winter.
8:31 caught in a moment of content, great scenery, great company and a great Cinnabon. Thanks!
Yep a moment of bliss on a good trip.
We were approached some years ago by a chap who was an amateur gold panner who was planning a trip to the Yukon and wanted some lessons in the dark art of open canoeing and he was a great fan of Robert Service and on a couple of trips to Scotland he would spend most of the day reciting his works. Great video Ray.
Some of those side streams would be very interesting. Yukon gold! Yep Robert Service and the Yukon are a heady mix.
those Cinnamonbuns look delicious even watching the video they must have been awesome after 7 days of paddling
They absolutely were! A good way to start the final week of the journey.
nice trip, would love to get on the yukon!
And so much history. Yep it is good 😊
@@RayGoodwinCanoe ever consider continuing the journey?
respect to all baby sitters
Thank you for commentating.
The ‘bear’ track in mud at 24:50 is wolf…. It is really nice to see river traffic acknowledged instead of cliche miles of nothing but bear, moose and mosquitos. Thank you; glad you seemed to enjoy the land, hope you come back… you’d do well presenting the other watersheds.
Thanks for the info! I am now embarrassed. So have gone back in to edit out that error on prints. Should have spotted that myself. But thank you for your kind comments. Again an embarrassed thank you.
Awesome trip Ray, and good timing as I'm heading to Dawson next week.
Thanks Phil. Are you canoeing?
@@RayGoodwinCanoe that’s the plan. Heading down to Eagle from there. Got my Afon loaded up.
@@RayGoodwinCanoe I’ve never paddled big water like the Yukon before, any advice is welcome.
@@philschaefer4651 The water should be well down on this year's fifty year high. Might even be close to what we paddled it in. Only two rapids on the section we did that being Five Fingers and Link. Follow the advise on Five Fingers and take the far river-right channel. Rouke's guidebook is very good down to Dawson. I have no knowledge of the river lower than that. If anything I think you will be surprised how flat everything is other than the river moves quickly. Seeing what you have paddled in Alaska I think you may be 'disappointed' how little action there is but it is still a great journey.
@@RayGoodwinCanoe Thanks Ray. The gauging stations are showing the river is running on the high side now, but dropping. No named rapids on the section I'm doing, but I'm told there's one tricky corner with some boils and a powerful eddy line. Will let you know next week. :)
Wooden tent pegs, the taught line hitch, the Italian hitch...have you been speaking with Mr. Kirtley? By the way, with that bear, the print you showed was of a timber wolf. Yes, these wolves are huge. Ah, now you know why we consider bushcraft as a life-long experience, not a hobby or a skill, with the wilderness available to us in Canada.
Mr Kirtley? Never met the chap 😅 and thanks for the correction. 🥹
I have gone back into the TH-cam editor to cut my embarrassing misidentification. Even I should have known better. I will hang my head in shame. Anyway again thanks for commentating and correcting. Cheers
@@RayGoodwinCanoe ha! ha! cheers! Excellent looking trip that is, and with dry feet all the way.
Wow that looked incredible. Would love to do that on a SUP!!
You should! Trick would be to first stock up in Whitehorse, then a restock in Carmacks. What an adventure that would be.
@@RayGoodwinCanoe I will have to pick your brains around logistics and cost. thanks for the response.
Main costs are airfare and hire of services inc boat hire from Up North Adventures. Link in description below video. Combined with the Big Salmon it is a great trip.
Nice trip and well produced video. Did anyone bring a fishing rod?
Thanks for your kind comments. We did fish. Some really good fishing on the Big Salmon River and we got some pike on the Yukon
Pure entertainment and a bit of relaxation too
Enjoyed that.
Is that the Yukon trip you did before you came out to france that year ?
Take care, love to you and yours
Yep. I struggled with this one but got there in the end. Glad you liked it. Kind regards
That water is terrifying, it churns...
And that is with a relatively low water level. In high water it will be really impressive boils and whirlpools.
What year was this? Just curious as this year (2022) has been high flow in the Yukon and not recommended for paddling as a result due to high water and lack of eddies. Nice video - thanks.
2019. I got really stuck editing this as I had made some big mistakes how I dated and filed the video footage. Learnt a big lesson there. Lost heart. But finally I gave myself a big talking to and got it done. A weight off my mind. Thanks for the kind comment.
@@RayGoodwinCanoe Really enjoyed this. I did it in 2020 with my partner. As a result of Covid and travel restrictions to the Yukon, we were pretty much alone on the river. Water levels and flow were similar to your trip. So historic. Your video captures it well.
@@rwiart Thank you so much. Glad it brought back good memories