Friday, June 11, 2010

Carmacks

So the trip up has been pretty great so far. We drove from Portland to Whitehorse in 3 days. Anyway we were happy to get there. Soo on our way up we saw a bunch of bear but since we have been on the river we have pretty much only seen fish, moose (giving birth to another moose, I might post the picture later), beaver, and tons of birds. The river has been great and the weather has been pretty good too. We put in on the river at 10:45 at night because guess what it never gets dark here. I had always heard people talk about how it is light here always, but you don't really understand until you experience it. So our basic day goes like this wake up, eat, row, eat, row, eat, sleep. Sometimes we mix it up and skip one of the eats and just row. Right now we are in the thriving metropolis of Carmacks, Yukon Territory and are looking at putting into the river any time now. Our next stop will be Dawson hopefully in 5-7 days.

3 comments:

Sarah Stout said...

Wow, Christian! I'd like to hear more of your adventures. Who are you with? How long will you be up there? Did you row all that way? :)

Diane said...

I'm glad to hear that the moose was giving birth to another moose, and not something else ;)

Christian said...

Sarah,
I'm up here with a couple people I met at BYU-Idaho and some of their friends and we are rafting for 2 almost 3 months but we are taking quite a few breaks along the way. And yes we are rowing the whole way. Maybe you know some of the people, Dallin Owens, Chelsea Roper, Carla Foggin, and Chelsea's friend from Texas.