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Day 1
Meet at the Air Tindi float base in old town
Yellowknife at 8:30AM. Charter flight to Hanbury River
just upstream of the junction with the Thelon River.
This 320K (200 mi.) flight will take us over the East
Arm of Great Slave lake and the Lakes which form the
source of the Hanbury River. The view below takes us out
of the northern boreal forests, over the taiga and
treeline and onto the tundra just inside the Thelon Game
Sanctuary. We will camp at our landing site and spend
the day exploring the area on foot with a hike to Helen
Falls on the Hanbury. Past trips have encounter numerous
wild animals in this area.
Day 2-5
Setting on the Hanbury River a short paddle brings
us to the Thelon River. Looking upstream we see where
this is now mighty river exits the a Thelon Canyon not
far from the confluence with the Clarke River flowing in
from the east. Following the Thelon we soon come to a
stand of black spruce which is known as Warden's grove.
This the cabin site and base for W.H.B Hoare, the
sanctuaries first game warden. Hoare's and a few other
cabins stand on this site. This part of the river offers
some of the best opportunities for wildlife viewing and
we plan on taking advantage of this. Close to the half
way point in this reach we visit Cosmos lake. The 1979
crash site if the atomic powered Soviet Satellite,
Cosmos 954 which made headlines around the world. On day
5 we will reach Hornby Point and explore the cabin site
and graves of John Hornby, Edgar Christian and Harold
Adlar. Hornby, an eccentric Englishman ha lived much of
his adult life with and in the ways of the Barrenground
natives. On his last trip to the Arctic in 1926, he
brought with him two young companions. Poorly
provisioned, the threesome built a cabin at what is
Hornby point with the hope of securing a winter's supply
of meat from the caribou migration which failed to show
in the fall of 1926. The story of their struggle to
survive and their eventual starvation is told in the
journal of Edgar Christian which was found in the cabin
with the three bodies over a year following their
deaths. His journal is a testimony to their efforts and
relentless the Barrens can be.
Day 6-10
Hornby Point to lookout Point For the next 100km (60
mi.) the Thelon area north and east with good current
into the well treed centre of the Thelon Game Sanctuary.
part of the Thelon Oasis, this growth maintains a large
population of muskox which are commonly seen from the
river. A days paddle before Lookout Point we will set
out to explore Muskox Hill which is located about 4 km
off the north side of the Thelon. The hill which can be
see from quite a distance across the tundra is actually
an ice polygon. probably the furthest south of any in
the Canadian arctic. At Lookout Point sits another cabin
of days gone by and an archeological site featuring a
number of native camps. DAY 11 - DAY 17
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