"Richard Ferguson" wrote in message
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I am currently researching for a possible trip on the MacKenzie River in
the Northwest Territories of Canada.


Lots of camping sites possible, between good shore patches and sand/gravel
bars. Instead of having a floatplane take you to Inuvik, have a local guide
come pick you up in their big plywood flatboats. (Air shuttles cost
thousands, compared to a boat tow which costs hundreds). When I did trips up
there, I outfitted through Dave Loeks at Arctic Edge Expeditions in
Whitehorse. He arranged for the gear, the fly-in to Duo Lake (on the Peel
watershed) and had an Inuit come pick us up 100 miles from Inuvik to tow us
in, since the MacKenzie was a huge, flat lake. It looked like the
Mississippi on a calm day, and there's no way I would have wanted to spend
2aweek paddling that kind of fla****er against the winds and bugs. YMMV. The
MacKenzie sounds like an interesting, historical river that you will always
be able to point to on a map and tell your friends about, but I think it'd
be the most boring trip imaginable.

--riverman