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Tour Overview
This spring snowshoeing expedition is for the real adventurer who wants an experience that is anything but ordinary. By snowshoe, we will travel across the Yukon landscape in much the way that early trappers and First Nations alike would have traveled in the past. Hauling toboggans as we go, we will bring with us everything that we need in order to be comfortable in the Yukon wilderness. We camp each night in a heated canvas wall-tent, cooking our meals over a portable wood-burning stove. We will search the skies at night for the dancing Northern Lights, and listen for the howls of a distant wolf pack. By day we travel on frozen lakes under the typically blue skis of the Yukon spring season and in the evenings we set our fishing lines in search of fresh fish.
What's Included:
•All transportation to and from Whitehorse
•Accommodation at Cabin Fever Adventures base-camp at beginning of trip
•group cooking gear and travel gear (toboggans and komatiks, and snowshoes)
The Snafu Lakes are located in the southern Yukon on the Atlin Road, just north of the British Columbia border. It is a well-loved location in the Yukon for its flat-water canoeing and excellent fishing. You will enjoy this chain of small lakes, with their numerous smaller bays, arms, and adjacent ponds and creeks all connected together in a watery wilderness chain, a rare feature for the Yukon, which is typically associated with its larger lakes and flowing rivers. Snafu Lake is the best flat-water canoe tripping location in the Yukon that is accessible by road. Its smaller bays and peninsulas and numerous islands make Snafu the perfect lake for peaceful, lazy exploration. There is always another corner to paddle around, another place for a moose to be hiding. It also has the benefit of having no individual bays large enough to create the troublesome winds and waves associated with the larger Yukon lakes. This makes it a perfect location for beginners, or families with children.
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Tour Highlights
Itinerary
Day 1: Final Preparations for Expedition (L, D)
Staff will pick you up from your hotels starting at 10:00 am. Any final details will be dealt with and we will depart Whitehorse by 12:00 am. Anyone who wishes to fish during the trip and has not purchased a Yukon fishing license will be given the opportunity to do so at this time. (There will be many opportunities to ice fish during this trip.)
Departing Whitehorse we will head south on the Klondike Highway towards Carcross, a small community nestled in the mountains. Here, at the winter home of Cabin Fever Adventures, we will have lunch and begin our final preparations for our snowshoeing expedition. During the afternoon we will go through our clothing systems, learn how to pack our toboggans, go over our final food packing, and then enjoy a walk around the highly scenic community of Carcross. If we have time, we will go fishing for grayling in the Nares River and have fresh fish for dinner. Accommodations tonight will be on camping cots in our home.
Day 2: Snafu Lake Adventure (L, D)
Today after an early breakfast, we will depart towards the Snafu Chain of Lakes. Once there, we will unpack our vehicle, pack our toboggans and depat on our northern adventure. Today we will learn how to haul our toboggans and work as a team., taking turns breaking trail to converve energy and learning to recognize prefered snow for travel. You will learn how to manage your clothing system to stay as dry as possible during the day and how to thrive in a cold weather envirorment. By mid afternoon we will stop to set our first bush camp. We will set a wall-tent, using poles from the bush, install our wall-tent stove, and prepare our sleeping area. Next we will chop a water/fishing hole through the ice and begin our substantial task for the evening of collecting and chopping firewood. We will set a fishing line to see if we can catch a pike, and enjoy the fruits of our labour, a warm and comfortable camp and some delicious food.
Day 3 - 6: Traditional Snowshoe Travel (B, L, D)
Over the next four days we will explore the Snafu Chain of Lakes, travelling by day and camping in our traditional and comfortable bush camps by night. We will stay in one of our camps for two nights, giving us a full layover day of rest, in the middle of our travels.
Day 7: (B)
Today is our final day to enjoy the serene beauty of Snafu Lake. We will enjoy a lazy morning in camp, lingering over our coffe, and enjoying the heat from the stove before it cools for the last time. We will strap on our snowhsoes one last time and trek towards our vehicle, with a full load of memories in tow. After loading our vehicle, we will stop for lunch ( not included ) on the way back to Whitehorse and arrive by 4:30 pm.
Our Trusted Partner's Responsible and Sustainable Travel Policy
At Cabin Fever Adventures we don’t believe we can protect the planet by simply saying that we love wilderness and that we strive to protect wild places. Of course we love the wilderness, but the bigger question is does the day-to-day operation of our company demonstrate this commitment? At Cabin Fever Adventures we strive to be the Yukon’s industry leader in promoting a earth-friendly business model. We actively engage our company in the preservation of not only the wilderness here in the Yukon, but consider our company an economic vehicle to affect positive change around the planet.
Our Earth-Friendly initiatives are based on the following simple beliefs:
•One person’s happiness can not be build at the cost of another's •One person can change the world by doing things differently, daily •The needs of the earth’s natural systems are the basis for all sound economic decisions when judged over the long-term.
Based on the above stated beliefs, we have instituted the following business practices into the operations of Cabin Fever Adventures.
We Provide an Organic and Fair Trade Food Menu
•Our food menu is as close to 100% organic as possible and we support several Fair Trade organizations through our food purchases as well. To learn more about organic food products please visit our food distributors website www.horizondistributors.com •To learn more about Fair Trade products and benefits please visit www.transfairusa.org
We are a Member of One Percent for the Planet
•One Percent for the Planet is an organization of member companies who donate at least 1 % of their gross revenues to non-profit environmental protection agencies. We are proud to have made this commitment and hope you will check out their site. We Support-Best Practice Local and or Canadian Businesses Partnerships •We support businesses in the following order of priority when it comes to sourcing gear for our company. First we support companies that we feel are conducting best practices for eco-justice and earth-friendly business practices. Next, we support companies that are local to the Yukon, and thirdly we support Canadian manufactured products because as a voter we can at least work towards changes in our own country.
We Challenge the Status Quo Consumer Attitudes Through our Purchasing Decisions
•We maintain our gear very well and believe in using the entire life-span of a product through proper maintenance and repairs. CFA does not get rid of perfectly good gear to satiate the consumer demand to be outfttted in gear that appears to be brand-new. We can not pretend to be true environmental advocates if our concern for the environment is Yukon-specific rather that global in perspective. Unnecessary consumerism is the fundamental lifestyle problem which has placed human existence out of balance with the planet. We need to start operating within our needs, rather than our wants. When a piece of gear no longer does its job properly or will create a significant consequence if it fails in the backcountry than it is first repaired, and if it can not be properly repaired than it is replaced, but not before. We have become skilled in gear repair, and even make some one-of-a-kind items ourselves. We attempt to source gear for our company from like-minded companies who are making significant steps to reduce their global environmental impact.
We Support Agencies Dedicated to Protecting Wild Places and to Improving Transportation Technologies Vital to Tourism
•We donate to the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) and green technologies NGO’S. For more information on the work of CPAWS please visit www.cpaws.org •We donate to the Pembina Foundation. www.pembinafoundation.org The Pembina Foundation for Environmental Research and Education supports innovative environmental research and education initiatives that help people reduce their energy footprint.
We Practice Leave No Trace Camping Practices
•The owner of Cabin Fever Adventures is a certified Master Trainer for The Leave No Trace Centre for Outdoor Ethics. We travel as lightly upon the land as we can so as to leave for the enjoyment of future generations the landscape we hold dear today. To learn more about the principles of LNT backcountry travel please visit www.lnt.org
Day-to-Day Operation of our Physical Plant
We operate Cabin Fever Adventures from our wilderness base-camp and are pursuing numerous efforts to minimize our environmental footprint.
•We personally live a lower-than-average impact lifestyle at our cabin in the wilderness. We live with our family of three in a 480 square foot home (44.6 m2 ) that is also our office for CFA. We function on an average of 15 gallons (56.78 L) of water per day for our entire family, including laundry, cleaning, drinking etc. Our water consumption at home is about one-twentieth the national average for Canada. •We operate an almost paper-less office and we conduct near-paperless interactions with our clients. You will notice that we offer all our information digitally and encourage our customers to embrace communication that avoids the need for paper. •We will soon be investing in a solar energy system for our base camp. •We believe in making our equipment last as long as possible and invest in skills and equipment which allow us to utilize local building materials and waste materials, to operate and or repair our equipment. •We remove our solid human waste from the environment on our busier river routes and dispose of it in sanitation dumps •Our largest environmental impact is our use of fossil fuels for transportation. This is why we actively donate to foundations supporting advances in renewable energy, such as the Pembina Foundation and have chosen to carbon offset all of our tourism products. •We utilize green cleaning dish soaps, cleaning products, and laundry detergents.
About our Trusted Partner
Cabin Fever Adventures offers a variety of wilderness vacations in the Yukon, Southeast Alaska and Northern British Columbia. We operate by the doctrines of ecotourism and are industry leaders in decreasing our environmental impact, not just in the wilderness areas we travel through, but globally through our ethical business decisions. We offer an organic food menu, purchase carbon offsets for our transportation emissions and donate to grassroots environmental protection agencies. If you would like to see the stunning beauty of the Northwest while treading lightly on the planet, then Cabin Fever Adventures is for you. There is only one future and it is shared!
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