Camera: Nikon F90     Lens: Nikkor F-AF 3.5-4.5/28-70mm     Film: Kodak Ektachrome 100     Date: 06.09.1994

Headwaters of the Lapie River, South Canol Road, Yukon

The South Canol Road follows the Lapie River from the headwaters at the Lapie Lakes through the Lapie valley and the spectacular Lapie Canyon until it joins the Pelly River just north of Ross River. The river was named for a Fort Liard hunter who travelled this area with Hudson’s Bay Company clerk Robert Campbell in the mid-1800s. Today, it’s great place for kayaking, canoeing and rafting, but when we visited in 1994, wildfires were just dying down and the still smoking, blackened vegetation was visible all around us.