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Take everything as it comes; the wave passes, deal with the next one.
Tom Tompson
THELON RIVER - July 2005
Six friends travel to Nunuvut for a great canoe trip.
Iqaluit
Welcome to Yellowknive.
The Real WildCat Cafe.
Interior of the WildCat Cafe for caribou burgers
Trapper's handmade fiddle
Early copper knife and pin.
Arrowheads
Leftovers at a flint napping station.
It's a lonesome land.
An Arctic Hare.
Glacial melt kettle.
Moonrise over Whitefish Lake
Caribou antlers in tundra heather.
A single tree gowing horizontally due to winds.
Tundra flowers.
After days of delay, finally loading up for the Thelon
Caribou antlers
The barrenlands.
Welcome to the barrenlands
First view of the Thelon
Muskox skull
Thelon spring flowers.
Unloading the canoes
The Beaver departing. We're on our own now.
First Camp on the Thelon
Warden's Grove cabin.
Interior of the cabin at Warden's Grove.
Trash left behind at Warden's Grove by the University of Calgary.
Why we came to the Thelon
Bug headnets were a real necessity.
Lunch break hoping for some wind.
Incoming rain.
tundra campsite
Hornby's last words before he and two others starved to death.
Midnight, the lowest the sun will get.
Paddles cairn.
Still a long way to go
The end of a long tiring day.
Unwinding with a midnight tea party .
The day after the tea party, some people are hurting.
Clouds reflected in the water
Waiting for the plane home.
The floatplane home.
Last view of the Thelon River.
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