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Reply #20 - Sep 7th, 2008 at 1:29pm
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1st camp, plane is gone, ice up-stream, good flow heading down-stream. The ground is spongy and lumpy. The frozen permafrost is holding ponds and puddles everywhere.
  
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Reply #21 - Sep 7th, 2008 at 1:34pm
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1st day on the river and it's beautiful weather, probably in the 50's. Here's a lunch stop at a tributary joining us. We've already traveled threw a few rocky swifts.
  
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Reply #22 - Sep 7th, 2008 at 1:42pm
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Here's another camp. You can see the circus tent we used for a dinning shelter. The bottom had netting and solid panels we could open or close. One pole and stake out the sides.
  
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Reply #23 - Sep 7th, 2008 at 1:44pm
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This ice was just left sitting on rocks at the mouth of a tributary joining us.
  
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Reply #24 - Sep 7th, 2008 at 1:50pm
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The river was flowing about 5 mph. You might be able to see the slight boils in the water. Always some snow in sight somewhere. We were running 20-25 sets of rapids each day. Scouting most drops from the boats by just standing up. We used two Old Town Discos, 16' and 17'. The outfitter in YK already had wind nuts on the larger one so we could remove everything to nest them together for the flight.
  
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Reply #25 - Sep 7th, 2008 at 1:57pm
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We had plenty of time to hike around. The expanse of the country was hypnotic. Kind of messed with your depth perception too. We were always on the lookout for Musk Ox and would get fooled by a rock in the distance. When we got close enough we saw the rocks were usually smaller than we'd thought. We started calling them "Musk Rocks".

Here's some of the ground cover.
  
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Reply #26 - Sep 7th, 2008 at 1:59pm
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Here's view from a top one of the low rises.
  
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Reply #27 - Sep 7th, 2008 at 2:05pm
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One trick I picked up. Camp on gravel bars. Find the right size stones and look for a smooth vein of smaller size gravel for your tent pad.

It's less buggy and the muskeg can turn into a big wet sponge it rains any. Seemed to work pretty good.
  
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Reply #28 - Sep 7th, 2008 at 2:16pm
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JJS,
That is some desolate looking country.
Beautiful in a sparse, minimalist way.
I was going to ask if you could use a Fly set-up, but I see now that you would have to bring poles for that.
Not much use for the old camp hammock up there Wink
  
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Reply #29 - Sep 7th, 2008 at 2:16pm
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Had a great time traveling down the Baillie. Saw two eagles the 1st couple days and we heard moose were coming into the area, neither is usually there. Climate must be changing. We were far enough north that there weren't any beavers so we dipped our mugs straight into the river to drink.
  
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