We started our hike in Cantwell and hiked up Jack River to Caribou Lakes where we spent our first night. All of the land around Jack River and Caribou Lakes is AHTNA land and a permit is required to legally trespass (which we had). Here are a couple pics from Day 1:
Next morning we packrafted across the lake as we spotted 6 Hilleberg tunnel tents setup there and figured we meet who it was. Turns out it was a NOLS group. So maybe the next NOLS gear sale will have some Hilleberg tents for sale for a good price if anyone is in the market??
Anyways, after we met the folks from NOLS we paddled back out into the lake and did some fishing via packraft and caught a couple lake trout which we had for breakfast.
Then we began the 7 mile hike from caribou lakes to Tsusena Pass. The walking was great so we made great time on the game trails and saw some beautiful country.
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Once through the pass it continued to be great walking to where we setup camp that night about 5 miles down from the top of the pass and about 1.5 miles upstream from where we could began packrafting the next day.
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Next morning we packrafted across the lake as we spotted 6 Hilleberg tunnel tents setup there and figured we meet who it was. Turns out it was a NOLS group. So maybe the next NOLS gear sale will have some Hilleberg tents for sale for a good price if anyone is in the market??
Anyways, after we met the folks from NOLS we paddled back out into the lake and did some fishing via packraft and caught a couple lake trout which we had for breakfast.
Then we began the 7 mile hike from caribou lakes to Tsusena Pass. The walking was great so we made great time on the game trails and saw some beautiful country.
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Once through the pass it continued to be great walking to where we setup camp that night about 5 miles down from the top of the pass and about 1.5 miles upstream from where we could began packrafting the next day.
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