She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
Boris Pasternak
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| John Evans, Canadian co-traveler on this adventure, was an artist. His rendition of me looking at caribou crossing the mountain across the river from us. With the usual cup of coffee in a gloved hand, looking through 45x telescope. The caribou went by for at least 18 hours (and it doesn't get dark in the summer)! |
Visitors come for various reasons, the thrill of
rafting the cold, white-water sections of a Class IV river, the rare experience
of encountering abundant wildlife and diverse Arctic flora, or simply to
embrace the natural rhythms of an utterly primitive, less hurried place. Above all, traveling down the Firth River
provides an unrivaled showcase of a Canadian panorama that can be found almost
nowhere else, a glimpse of what a mountain landscape would look like had
glaciers never scoured it.
