Category: Nááts’ihch’oh

After my Broken Skull River post, I forgot to add that my canoe partner made a video of the trip with some sweet drone footage. I’m not in the video much due to being in the videographer’s canoe, but you can see me in a few places (I’m the yellow drysuit/blue helmet).

I’m falling behind on summer posts. A month ago, I was out at Backbone Lake for my last trip into the park for the season.

Backbone Lake has some nice views…

…some nice wildlife…

…some nice hot springs (44C)…

…and some nice furniture.

There were some old fuel barrels washed about 2km down the creek that we managed to haul out using some ingenuity, a folding canoe, and a lot of muscle power.

At one point, some smoke from wildfires in BC filled the sky and made it look like the end of the world was nigh.

From Divide Lake, I switched teammates and headed down the Broken Skull River. Despite the ominous name, the Broken Skull River is actually the least technical river in the park.

Here are some photos of people getting splashed by waves:

It was a very scenic river.

   

We hiked up a nice mountain near one of our campsites.

I learned a bit about how Parks Canada photo shoots are done.

We stopped at some nice hot springs.

And saw some fun animals.

We ended our trip at Rabbitkettle Lake in Nahanni, where we went to see the largest tufa mounds in Canada.

From the flight out, here’s a sneak preview of my next destination: Backbone Lake (formerly Grizzly Bear Lake).