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Title: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Robert Pavlis on February 23, 2008, 04:42:34 AM
I thought you might be interested in some pics from Northern Canada. I am an avid canoeist and have done a number of Arctic trips in Canada. These pictures are from a 3 week trip down the Coppermine River, which empties into the Arctic Ocean. Four of us went on the trip with 2 canoes, and we never saw another person until the last day.

The land around the river is called Barren Land, or the Barrens - land of no trees. Elevation is not high, so plants are not exactly alpine, but they do spend most of the year under snow and in freezing temperatures. The ground can be very rocky, or very wet.

I won't even try to name the plants - you can have fun doing that.

Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Robert Pavlis on February 23, 2008, 04:44:13 AM
pic #5 - yes there are bugs! ;D
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Robert Pavlis on February 23, 2008, 04:47:08 AM
# 53 - the plateau above the river valley - wide open spaces

# 87 - one of the gorges we ran
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Robert Pavlis on February 23, 2008, 04:50:14 AM
More flowers
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Robert Pavlis on February 23, 2008, 04:56:59 AM
# 249 yours truely with an Arctic Char. This is the outlet to Bloody Falls - a famous place in Canadian History. That night we eat the Char at around midnight on the Arctic Ocean watching one of the most fabulous 'almost' sun sets. That far north the sun does not set in summer.

enjoy.

I don't have more pictures of plants on this trip, but I do have lots on the river if interested.
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Brian Ellis on February 23, 2008, 09:35:41 AM
Thank you, Robert, for the opportunity to share this trip with you.  It is somewhere that I will never get too and it is a real treat to see the flora of the area.
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: David Nicholson on February 23, 2008, 10:00:18 AM
Great pictures Robert, as Brian said, of places we shall never see.
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Maggi Young on February 23, 2008, 10:49:48 AM
Now we now why you are a "mad tripper", Robert!! Great stuff....vicarious trippping for this fat middleaged Scotswoman  8)

Bet that Char tasted good, it is a beauty!
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Lesley Cox on February 24, 2008, 03:12:21 AM
That's one very nice fish!
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Magnar on February 24, 2008, 08:50:19 AM
Apart from a couple of the plants it looks so much like what we have in the inland mountains here in North Norway.

Thank you for the photos :)
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Kristl Walek on February 24, 2008, 08:38:54 PM
Hello Robert from Guelph....your post turned on the butterfly response in my stomach--and made me yen to return to the far north. I recognize most of the plants in the photos--so I think that must mean that I automatically become the complimentary on-board botanist for the next trip.  ::)
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Luc Gilgemyn on February 25, 2008, 09:15:23 AM
Great stuff Robert !
Makes a lot of us dream I guess....  :-\
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Peter Korn, Sweden on February 28, 2008, 08:14:06 PM
Very nice plants and landscape but in this case I would prefer the fishing. Very impressive! Fly-fishing?
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Robert Pavlis on March 05, 2008, 03:32:27 AM
Kristl - if you can carry a 100 lb canoe for a couple of kilometers - you can join us.

Peter - I fish with a very cheap folding fishing rod with metal spinners. I am no fisherman. I like the folding rod since it packs easily. With a fish this large you have to play with it a long time to tire it out so it does not break the pole.

This one took some time to catch, but at most streams, it only takes 10 minutes to catch diner.
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Maggi Young on March 05, 2008, 11:32:50 AM
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Kristl - if you can carry a 100 lb canoe for a couple of kilometers - you can join us.
Damn! I can only carry an 80lb canoe for one kilometer  ;)  ..... so that's me out!  ::)
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: stellan on March 11, 2008, 05:13:07 PM
Nice pictures. I feel that I need to go to Canada next year... How about biking in Canadian Artic?

/Stellan
Title: Re: Coppermine River - Canadian Arctic
Post by: Robert Pavlis on March 24, 2008, 12:33:08 AM
At first I thought you were kidding - then I looked at your picture. Maybe you are not kidding?

did some searching, but can't find anyone who had cycled the Canadian barren lands, except along the few roads that exist. The land is quite rough, but it is a thought.
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