The best trip we'll never do again. A tale of adventure.The plan was to accomplish the first descent of the remote Wood River in British Columbia by hiking 24km from Sunwapta Falls into its headwaters at Fortress Lake, paddling 15km across the lake, 30 km down the river (excluding 2 major class VI waterfall filled canyons) then ascending back up 3500 ft in 37 km to the continental divide though Athabasca pass, crossing into Alberta again and navigating the Whirlpool River the remaining 80 km back to the Icefield Parkway. As it turns out there is a reason no one has ever done this before. But in the end we completed this 5 day trip in a mere 11 days :).
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Gave my buddy Dom a crash course in whitewater canoeing and the SOAR 16 it's first real test on Sheep Creek near Grande Cache, Alberta. We hit some rocks, get wet, do a steep portage and have a great time.
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Just found this footage from the 2019 Canadian Packraft Rendezvous in Mount Robson Provincial Park. The Canoe River begins in the Cariboo Mountains, west of Valemount, British Columbia, and flows east to the vicinity of Valemount, then southeast to join the Columbia River at the "Big Bend" of the Columbia.
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