Photo Adventures with Ed

Yukon River Raft Trip

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In 1982 I led a wilderness expedition with two other adventurers down a section of the Yukon River. We traveled for just under a 1000 miles while living off the land.

The purpose of the trip was to recapture the spirit of the gold rush days. There are less people on the river now than there were in 1905 during the height of the gold rush.

Everything we did, we did on our own – in the bush. We brought solely hand tools, rope and basic food supplies: 900 lbs all told. After slugging all of this gear across the continent, up the inside passage and across the divide on the train between Skagway and Whitehorse, we floated down about 50 miles of the river on a rubber raft to Lake Laberge.

There, thwarted by ice, we stopped to shake off civilization and build the raft from whatever supplies we could find.

This is the trip that started it all. Little did I know that this was the start of Photo Adventures with Ed.

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