Hiking Adventures
Over the last eighteen years, Canoe North Adventures has augmented its canoe trips with hiking expeditions with great success. Hikes have set out in the Richardson Range, on the Chilkoot Trail and in Kluane National Park. The response from our clients has been extremely positive and we will be growing this part of our business over the next few years.
Anne-Marie da Silva and Walter Brennan with their sons Lawrence and Joel joined Al, Lin and Taylor on an exploratory canoe trip on the Tischu River, a tributary of the Keele River (read more about this trip here). This trip also starts at Mile 222 and the area was so beautiful, a truly, pristine wilderness, a trip had to be planned to hike in the region. Already planned for this summer, Canoe North Adventures with guide, Al Pace is taking a group out on the Canol Trail from Mile 222 high in the Mackenzie Mountains just east of the Yukon border down to the Godlin Lakes.
The Canol Trail runs from just outside of Whitehorse, Yukon to Norman Wells, Northwest Territories. It was built during the Second World War by the United States and Canadian armies. The US was uncertain whether the oil supply would be cut off from Alaska when the Japanese took the Aleutian Islands. The story of the building of this road can be found at www.normanwells.com/visit/canol_trail.html or www.explorenorth.com/library/yafeatures/bl-canol.htm
Watch for the story of the Canol Road hike trip report this fall. Plans are to offer another Canol Trail hike in 2010.
Watch our site for new developments over the next few years to build more hiking excursions into our adventure mix.
Featured Adventures
- Tischu River
Our exploratory trip on the Tischu River, a tributary of the Keele River
News & Events
- Fall Newsletter November 2011
We have just posted our 2012 Expedition Program and you will see that we have offered two new winter trips including an ice-road adventure to Norman Wells! We are very excited to be offering a Coppermine River Adventure – this was my first ever arctic canoe trip when I was just 18 years old! Other [...]
- Celebrate Sahtu
On July 23rd, The Town of Norman Wells, North-Wright Airways and Canoe North Adventures will host a celebration that will showcase the wilderness of the Sahtu Region and recognize the collaboration of effort to brand the Sahtu Region of the Northwest Territories as a tourism destination with national and international recognition. This event will highlight the [...]
- Great Bear River Exploration
This past summer, Lin Ward, Susan Casson, Matt Casson and Karl Schiefer checked out the Great Bear River. North-Wright Airways flew them into the First Nation community of Deline on Great Bear Lake. Once canoes were loaded they only paddled a short distance out to a camp right on Great Bear Lake. Karl and Matt [...]
- The 2010 Operator of the Year Award for the Northwest Territories
The award was presented to Al and Lin by the Minister of Tourism at the Northwest Territories Tourism Gala Dinner held in Inuvik on Thursday, November 25th…
- Our Outfitting Centre
It has been a long-standing dream of Canoe North Adventures …
- The Redstone River Exploratory Expedition
The Redstone River is unique in that…
- Canol Heritage Trail Exploratory Hike, 2009
At Canoe North, we are always intrigued with the prospect of a grand adventure…
- Ice Road
The trip took eight days and the last two days …
- Exploratory Trips
In 2009, we are planning two more exploratory trips…
- New Air Services and Canoeing Base for CNA, 2009
at the North-Wright Airways float base in Norman Wells…
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