🛶 Canoeing the wild Nahanni River

🚣 ADVENTURES ON THE WILD ALSEK RIVER    • 🚣 Adventures on the wild Alsek River  

This is a video of a 13 day canoe trip down the wild South Nahanni River in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The South Nahanni River is one of the prime wilderness rivers in Canada. There are few traces of civilization along the river including zero light pollution, making for potentially excellent northern light viewing conditions. Fortunately during this canoe trip, we were able to view several Northern Light displays.

From Ft. Simpson, we flew by bush plane to a gravel bar on the Nahanni River named the Bunny Bar where our canoe trip started. From there it was down river to Virginia Falls where we portaged around the falls before canoeing through four mighty canyons and finishing our canoeing at Nahanni Butte.

In total, we canoed down the Nahanni River for some 330 kilometers.

Highlights include:

00:43 Buffalo Airways
02:15 Fort Simpson
04:53 Flight to the Nahanni River
08:46 Beaver in action
11:16 Tufa mound
18:50 Virginia Falls
20:12 Northern Lights display #1
22:49 Fourth Canyon
25:45 Figure 8 Rapids
26:18 Third Canyon
26:31 The Gate
29:23 Second Canyon
30:17 Northern Lights display #2
31:43 Paddle cabin #1
32:15 First Canyon
32:34 George's Riffle
35:53 Northern Lights display #3
36:59 Lafferty's Riffle
37:43 Kraus Hotsprings
38:29 Paddle cabin #2
41:00 Wood bison
41:58 Nahanni Butte
43:21 River taxi
44:52 Ferry across the Liard River
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