Nahanni Photo Gallery by merrymedia at pbase.com

Nahanni

The South Nahanni River, in the North West Territories, Canada, is part of the Nahanni National Park. Generally accessed by air from Fort Simpson. These pictures are from a week long rafting trip starting at Virginia Falls.

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Nahanni National Park	Map	Outfitter's Office, Fort Simpson	Loading Twin Otter	On Board	Native Drum Circle in Fort Simpson
Green Ponds	Lakes	Nahanni River	Virginia Falls. Height twice that of Niagara Falls	Boardwalk Portage of 1.3 Km to the bottom of Virginia Falls	Virginia Falls
Pep talk with guides Ian and Marissa	Virginia Falls	Down River below Falls	Nahanni River in the Morning above Virginia Falls	Portage around Virginia Falls	Long Portage. Did it twice.
Virginia Falls	Hiking up to the Falls	Virginia Falls	Rainbow at Falls	Rainbow in the Mist	Mushroom Button. These mushroom shots all taken within 10 minutes.
Mushroom small orange	Mushroom (Fat Pholiota)	Mushroom Blob 2	Mushroom (Woodland Russula)	Mad Hatter Mushroom	Turtles
Last Chance before Falls	Very Wild	At Play	Lunch in Style	Sorting out the Gear	Raft Vista
Max and Chris	Raft Rowing	Painted Canyon Walls	Cave Shelter	Rock Cut	Rapids
Forest Fire Burn Marks	Mountain near Figure 8 Rapids	Camp Day 2	North View from Camp 2	Yes, Wine!	Dinner is Served.
Downtime Washing and Reading	Black Cookpots	Dusk Day 2	Morning Camp Day 3	Breakfast	Max and Chris
Falcon Kite	Now Rain	Rocky Lunch	Sweeping Mountains	Colored Rocks	Third Canyon Wall
Third Canyon	Rafting High	Shadow Walls	I spy	Endless Forests	Burned out
Castle Rock	Approaching the Gate	Pulpit Rock at the Gate	Pulpit Pinnacle	Preachers Rock	Hiking up Canyon
Light Sliver	Looking down on Pulpit	View from the Top of Hells Gate	Hells Gate Summit	From the top of the Cathedral	Sunset
Tasted Great	Packing in the Cold. Frost again last Night	Smarties, Everyones favorite. Especially Max.	Josh and Ian	Rowing Doubles	Cubes
Black Bear along River	Black Bear running up the Mountain	Funeral Range Stone Marker	Staying Cool	Deadman Valley	Cairn. We added one more before we Left
Lunch	Pin Heads	Canyon Wall. Magnificient!!!	Vertical Slices	Morton's Nob	Tlogotsho Plateau
Warden Check-In Station	Warden's Cabin	Paddle's with Names of River Travellers	One parties River Map	Broken Paddle	Sign-in Book
Smile of the Day	Gravel Beach	Max Cooking	Cook and Taster	Camp set up	Dinner Time at Prairie Creek
SunFlare	Sunset	River Fog	Misty Breakfast	Valley Fog with Mountain	Red Fog
Morning River	Fog Shadows	Ok, Enough Fog	Moring Hike to Prairie Creek Canyon	Prairie Creek	Dall Sheep Horns
Horns	Heli Pad by Warden's Cabin	Back on the River	Watching the Views	Checking out the Rapids	Canyon Reflection
George's Riffle	Canoe in Riffle	Canoe Through George's Riffle	First Canyon	Chris Made it Through	Lunch Stop at 5 Star Spot
Packs on Raft	Double Mountain	Columns	Canoe Riding	Canyon Wall	Breakfast
Kraus Hot Springs	Kraus Cabin	I love my Bath	Someone Ran to River for Swim and Back to the HOT Spring	Group Soak	Paddles in Kraus Cabin
Supper	Looking North	Hot Coco	Great Salad	Jo's Smile	Snow, Yes Snow in August
Lunch	Waiting for Motor Boats	Napping	Water Taxi has Arrived	Canoe Riding High	Cold Boat Ride for 40 Km
Looking Back up River	Nahanni Butte	Docking for a Break in Town	Store	End of Rainbow	More Rain
Blackstone Territorial Park, Day 7 Camp	River Lights

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Pierre-Jean		04-Sep-2006 16:04
Explorator Jean POirel, was the first one to go down the Yahanni from the source in June 1964 with 3 companions,Bertrand Bordet, Claude Bernardin and Roger Rochat. They were parachuted at the beginning of the Yahanni with all equipments and were left on their own with no radio, nor help from the outside world. Compas were not useful. For several months they explored the region using inflatable canoes that needed constant repairs. 41 persons died attempting the exploit before them and they were the first to come back alive. Jean Poirel made several books including "la Vallee des hommes sans tetes" and films. He named a large cavern he discovered along the upper Nahanni after his daugther Valerie. I am the 60 years old father inlaw of his Daughter Valerie, (and soon -along with Jean Poirel- grand-father of her son. . Jean Poirel is now 75, I had the pleasure to meet him recently and we talked about his adventures. He mentionned his films (16mm) that were getting old and forgotten. Some have been destroyed. I proposed helping saving what was left and revive them in DVD disk for himself and his familly. This movie had no sound and I asked him to add his comments on tape, that I could easely add to the film with my computer. He does not know much about this new technology so he was happy I could do that !!! Your trip and pictures helped me to understand more about this mysterious river. He told me how glad he was to be able to open this great parc to the public. His first expedition took several month. canoes were lost with food and they had to eat herbs and roots to survive or an occasional skirel to split among the 4 of them. Paddles were broken many times and they had to create them on the spot. After the firrst expedition he came back many time and explored the region for 5 years in order to map the area in its entirety. climbing, exploring every cavern and mountain. Here I am sitting in front of my computer and I envy you for doing such a wonderful trip. Although it is not as dangerous and impredictable as it was the first time with absolutely no help from the outside world, it still neeeds lots of efforts and courage to do such a trip. I envy you! Thank you for sharing your "modern" adventure with me, I shows me that after all, beside more safety, the adventure is still a wild and wonderful one ! Pierre-Jean

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