Getting ready

We've spent months thinking about and planning this next trip.  We've been wary at times about Covid, gas prices, world conflicts, personal health but are heading out in a couple of weeks for a 5-6 months Canadian adventure.

Last time (2018) we missed many Canadian treasures that we hope to explore this time.  For example, we will be camping and exploring Jasper, Banff and the Icefields parkway.  Visit some friends and relatives again and also some that we missed.  Hopefully fly up in a hot air ballon that was to be Elizabeth's 60th birthday gift a few years ago, missed due to weather, travel or health.  

As part of our journey, we will spend time on the west coast where we will meet up with some family members and cruise up to Alaska on a trip that has been scheduled and booked and cancelled several times due to Covid since 2019.  Originally, it was a Caribbean cruise.

In 1997 (25 years ago), I was fortunate and able to canoe the Nahanni River, a Canadian National Park and Unesco World Heritage Reserve in the Northwest Territories...truly a trip of a lifetime.  We have joined a charter group and we will fly to Virginia Falls on the Nahanni for the day on a float plane from Muncho Lake.  I'm emotional just writing about this and look forward to this adventure with Elizabeth.

Nahanni National Park Reserve (Nah?ą Dehé) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site globally renowned for its geologic landforms. An incomparable northern wilderness, Nah?ą Dehé harbours sheer granite spires, vast alpine plateaus and, at its heart, the South Nahanni, a Canadian Heritage River. This great-spirit water thunders at Náįlįcho (Virginia Falls) and has carved the deepest canyons in Canada. Natural labryinths of the North Nahanni Karst are among the most spectacular examples of this landform type and the Gahnįhthah mineral springs form Canada’s largest tufa mounds.

The tufa mounds are home to the horizon walker, Yamba Deja, who created Dene law. Visitors are welcomed to the land by the Dehcho First Nations, whose ancestors have called Nah?ą Dehé home since time before memory. Climbers, hikers, paddlers and visitors of all kinds find personal inspiration and connection to this rugged land and its people.

Some pictures from my canoe trip on the Nahanni 1997.

We hope to revisit parts of the Yukon and Tombstone Territorial Park, Dawson City, a side trip to Mayo and Whitehorse.

Believe it or not...by that time it will already be late September and we will make a mad dash to return home (before we hit too much snow) sometime in mid/late October.

So stay tuned and expect an email with the links to our blog as we explore more of this great and vast country we call Canada, our home.

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Jerry, Elizabeth, Misty, Miss Adventure Too, Clifford the big Red Truck and the Guys.

The "Guys"

In 2018 we stopped at Watson Lake and placed a sign at The Signpost Forest there...above is the new one we hope to hang close to the old one:  

                                                                                                        On the little bridge.  Hope we can find it.

More info about the Signpost Forest: click below

Watson Lake Signpost Forest