Journals

A good way to plan for a river trip is to read about other travellers experiences. We've collected some narratives of river trips in the Mackenzie River Basin. If you have one to add, please email the me (hpinson@indepthl.com), and I can either post it directly, or link to it.

• Canoeist's Guide to the Liard and Mackenzie Rivers. A short summary of a canoe trip down the Fort Nelson, Liard, and Mackenzie River, by Harlow and Ariane Pinson

• Jon Bayley has made available an excellent Hay River to Inuvik trip description. It is full of pictures and valuable paddling information. It is a large Adobe Acrobat document, and is available here. They have a website too that describes adventures crossing the Greenland icecap.

• Retracing Mackenzie: A Paddler Magazine article about Norm Miller's 1998 Mackenzie River kayak trip, by Peta Owens-Liston.

• In 1993 Ray Jardine and his wife paddled the Mackenzie and onto the Arctic ocean.

• The Mackenzie River Trip, by Roland Gussafsson. In the summer of 1992, Börje Johansson and Arne Hyckenberg got the idea of building a raft and floating down the Mackenzie River in the Northwest Territories of Canada. The trip took place in August of 1993.

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