Proposed Route

Hommes du Nord 2008

Great Slave Lake to Kugluktuk on Arctic Ocean

Emile, Parent and Coppermine Rivers

Caleb Dayton Taylor Fay H. Eben Kowler David Lilien Robbie Rosenthal Sasha Van Voorhis-Horn

6/29: Potential Day on Trail?

6/30 – 7/5: Day 1 – 6 On Trail

Great Slave Lake to Basler Lake, through Marian Lake and upstream on the Emile River

Starting on the Great Slave Lake about 100km east of Yellowknife, and traveling through a channel to Marian Lake, we will begin our trip up the Emile River. This section of travel will be mostly lakes with short river sections in between. The sets in this area will be portaged or lined.

All river travel until Grenville Lake (in the Coppermine Watershed) will be upstream, and the section after Marian Lake will have the most sets to line or portage.

7/6 – 7/11: Day 7 – 12 On Trail

Basler Lake to Brown Water Lake, along the Emile River

This section is characterized by long, winding lakes and very little river travel.

7/12 – 7/17: Day 13 – 18 On Trail

Brown Water Lake to Rawalpindi Lake

North of Brown Water Lake, we will leave the Emile River and paddle up Dune Creek to Dune Lake, and then into Grenville Lake and the Coppermine watershed from Mesa Lake.

7/17: Resupply on Rawalpindi Lake at 8:00 PM (tentative)

7/18 – 7/23: Day 19 – 24 On Trail

Along the Parent River to the Coppermine River, through Red Rock Lake to the Hepburn River confluence

This will be our first downstream travel and includes some whitewater. Max Ward’s cabin is also in this section. We will cross the tree line again here, back into the taiga.

7/24 – 7/29: Day 23 – 30 On Trail

The Coppermine River from the Hepburn River Confluence to Rocky Defile

The Coppermine River in this area is fast moving, mostly swift water with little or no whitewater, depending on conditions. Most groups report fast travel here across the border into Nunavut Territory and through the “Big Bend.” Rocky Defile is a huge canyon.

7/30 – 8/5: Day 31 – 37 On Trail

The Coppermine River from Rocky Defile to Kugluktuk on the Arctic Ocean

Our last section of the river includes a few sights, including the confluence with the Kendall River, Franklin’s Route to the Great Bear Lake, and Bloody Falls, a National Historic Site.

8/6 – 8/7: Day 38 – 39 On Trail

Kugluktuk

We’ll spend a couple days here to explore the town and meet some of the people living there. Last summer, the Hommes and Femmes groups did a community-paddling clinic in Baker Lake, and I’m hoping we’ll be able to do the same.

8/7: Kugluktuk to Winnipeg on Canadian North Airlines

Our flight takes us from Kugluktuk to Yellowknife to Calgary to Edmonton to Winnipeg. Four transfers!

8/8 – 8/9: Winnipeg to Menogyn by van.

8/9: Welcome at Menogyn

8/10: Home again…

The advantage of planning in six-day segments allows flexibility on trail, so that we are not trying to reach a specific campsite each night. The plan also includes one non-travel day per section for layover days and wind-bound days. We also have two days in Kugluktuk at the end as a buffer.

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