Post-Conference Activities

The photos appearing on this page are courtesy of Bill Blann, Bob Browne, and Gary Wilson. Click on any of the pictures to get a larger image.

Canoeing on the Teslin River

The Monday after the conference, Bob Browne, Bob Perkins, Bill Blann, and Jacky McGuire set out on a six day canoe trip on the Teslin River. The trip took them from Johnson's Crossing to Little Salmon Village on the Upper Yukon River, a distance of about 200 miles. (The river maps still use British units!). The weather varied from hot and sunny to rainy and cold. The day they hit the junction of the Teslin and Yukon Rivers, it hailed enough to cover the canoes with ice pellets. The rivers of the Yukon are a living museum, and the group saw Indian fishing villages, abandoned gold dredges, NWMP outposts, and shipyards for wintering the river steamers. One of the highlights was standing on the deck of the first "Klondike", a paddlewheeler which ran aground on the upper Yukon, and which was stripped to equip the second "Klondike" which is now open as a museum in Whitehorse. Truly a trip to remember.

Bob Perkins and Jacky McGuire enjoy coctail hour on the Teslin River.	Bill Blann in a typical pose.
Bob Perkins and Bob Browne paddling beside a cut bank (with a few hoodoos showing) on the Teslin River.	This trapper's cabin has become famous, not for the history it represents, but for the fact that the sod roof supports a full sized tree. It was found on the Upper Yukon River.
Bill and Jacky missed a short cut and ended up paddling the long way around an island. They were rewarded with the only sighting of mountain sheep on the whole trip, a fact that they didn't let the Bobs forget. Other wildlife spotted included bald eagles, lots of moose, and a lynx. There were mixed feelings about not seeing any bears.