I'm planing (together with a friend) a canoe trip on the yukon river starting somewhere in Canada next year. We plan to buy our own Canoe and would like to make it all the way through Alaska and as far as possible into Alaska (time is no question).
Has anybody ever done such a trip and can give me some helpfull information / advice such as: where to start, how to cross the border between Canada and USA, could the bears be a broblem, do I need a permisson for fishing.....
wandererii
1
hublocker
Yes you'll need fishing licences.
Good thing you're starting to plan now if you have to ask a quesiton like that.
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copperspoon
Some Info Here
Unless you have a lot of wilderness paddling experience I strongly suggest you go with a tour or choose a smaller river and a shorter paddle.
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south_of_60
Hi;
Some guy at National Geographic did the whole river and wrote it up in one of thier magazines a couple years ago.
You might want to read it.
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stromaroma
Alastair Humphreys, the British guy who rode his bike around the world, canoed down the river. Try looking up his story.
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thoughtpolice
Most people put their canoes in at Whitehorse. If you do it at the headwaters, you'll hit the dam just upstream from W'horse and die. The Yukon is the second longest river in a continent filled with big rivers, and many other major rivers are fed into it along the length.
I could give you plenty of info on the route within Canada, but really you'd be better off Googling the pro guides to the river.
To canoe the entire thing will take- I'd guess - about 10 weeks of paddling. The Delta is freaking enormous, you'd really want some good charts and a GPS there.
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pyrrha
As an aside, the feds wanted to do a "boat tour" of the Skeena earlier this week. Hahahaha! Gotta love easterners.
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