Tatshenshini

Dalton Post to Dry Bay: Welcome to the food chain!

This Yukon put-in loaded with Grizzly and cold, fast glacial water. The rapid currents, glacial til-laden water and nice open country.

The day one canyon differs from every day on the Tatshenshini River.

The Tatshenshini-Alsek Park links the three adjacent national parks, Kluane in the Yukon, Glacier Bay and Wrangell-St Elias in Alaska, to create a 97,000 square kilometre ecological unit and bi-national World Heritage Site. Situated in the extremely rugged northwest corner of British Columbia, in 1993 it became the fourth component in the largest international protected area in the world. Half the landscape is permanently covered in snow and ice - the other half fosters forests and tundra and stable populations of wildlife untouched but for a historic aboriginal presence.

To ensure the preservation of the entire ecosystem, the Tatshenshini River and its tributary, the Alsek River, are completely protected from headwater to source, creating the only large river drainage in North America that is completely safeguarded.

Unique river hazards when approaching Alsek Lake, commonly icebergs form river-wide dam/sieves, grounded icebergs become cave/sieves.

The heat and bugs in the upper reaches usually contrast the fog and glacial chill of the lower half of this mighty Wild river.