Features
Beginner's Guide To Paddling
It's not all raging rapids and remote rivers up here
Photo courtesy Gerold Sigl/NWT
Pulled From The Brink
Without luck, determination and Darrel Nasogaluak, the Mackenzie Delta Inuvialuit may have lost their qajaq forever.
Photo by Nathalie Heiberg-Harrison
Water Power
Hydro electricity is often seen as the panacea to the North’s energy woes—and for good reason. It’s cleaner than diesel, it’s worked up here for more than a century, and the natural potential is boundless. But remember, nothing’s perfect.
The Whitehorse Dam. Its construction drowned the capital's namesake White Horse Rapids, which now lie beneath Lake Schwatka. Photo courtesy Archbould Photography/Yukon Energy
Happiness Is A Cold Day
The cool comforts of ice fishing in Chesterfield Inlet
Photo by Hannah Eden/Up Here
Liard River Crabbing
Small-talk from the captain's nest of the Fort Simpson ferry
The MV Lafferty, captained by Graham Cox, battles the Liard River current in the Deh Cho. Photo: Herb Mathisen/Up Here, Photo illustration: Beth Covvey
