Tischu River
In 2008, we embarked on an exploratory trip on the Tischu River, a tributary of the Keele River in the Northwest Territories. We had thought this might be a river that we could offer our clients and also give us access to the upper Keele River. What we discovered is that we would need a very experienced group of paddlers if we were to take this on in the future.
The trip started high in the Mackenzie Mountains near the Yukon border at the air strip located at Mile 222 of the Canol Trail. The Tischu, a short portage from the strip, starts out as a small stream. An old, collapsed wooden bridge marks the put in point. We paddled down the Tischu to the Keele and then down the Keele to the mining camp a day and a half below Delthore.
Our group was made up of our family … Al Pace, Lin Ward and Taylor Pace and our friends family … Walter Brennan, Anne-Marie da Silva, Lawrence and Joel Brennan from Whitehorse, and rounding out the group was Calef Staples, a friend form Whitehorse. All were very experienced paddlers and we all needed those skills to paddle this river.
We had a huge amount of fun and loved every minute of our trip but it was challenging. Water levels can be unpredictable and we were lucky to have high water that reduced how much had to be lined that involved dragging our boats through rock gardens with no free water channel to be found. The Tischu is narrow, extremely fast and very rocky with chutes and standing waves that continually crash over your bow. Even with our spray decks, our boats took on huge amounts of water. We all left with big smiles on our faces.
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