Paddler season is upon us. From now until it gets cold, the town will be occasionally visited by tourists on the river.
I, personally, discovered this when I was guarding at the RCMP station the other night. At about 3am, still fully bright outside, three late-20s-ish dudes start waving at me from outside through the window. Turns out they were three Swiss guys who had literally just floated into town on their kayaks and were wondering where they could camp.
I told them I wasn’t a cop, but to just pitch their tents on the grass out the front of the RCMP station and that I’d take the heat if it was a problem when the cops woke up. It wasn’t.
They’d been on the river for almost a month already. Reminded me of the trip I did on the Yukon and so we swapped river-travel stories for a while before I let them go to sleep.
I also heard a rumor that recently a group of six hardcore chicks came into town. They’re heading *up stream* up the Bear River, across Bear Lake, and then following Coppermine River out to the arctic. Hardcore. Here’s their website if you want to learn more about their trip: http://www.6northof60.org/