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ARTICLE: Canoeing and Climbing in the Cirque of the Unclimbables

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 UKC Articles 07 Sep 2016
Paddling across Glacier Lake towards the Cirque, 3 kbOur plan was to canoe the Little Nahanni and Nahanni rivers, a twenty-day white-water trip that would bring us within striking distance of the Cirque of the Unclimbables, home to the Lotus Flower Tower. Once there our mission was simple: "Get Bron's dad Geoff to the top of the Tower"!

Jacob Cook recounts his summer adventures combining canoeing and climbing in Canada with his girlfriend Bronwyn and her family, an unconventional family holiday of special significance.



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 Zoomer 07 Sep 2016
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Awesome!!! Always wanted to paddle the Nahanni and then do the Tower, time to get planning!
 Josh Willett 07 Sep 2016
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Brilliant!!!
 WildCamper 07 Sep 2016
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Living the dream man!

Good write up
 ChrisBrooke 07 Sep 2016
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What a great trip. That sounds like a fantastic few weeks of adventure and fun.

[without wanting to trivialise the adventure, the best bit for me: Thor Mountainside! Best climber's name in the world!!]
James Jackson 07 Sep 2016
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That's epic - what a trip!
 3leggeddog 07 Sep 2016
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A great adventure but come on...

Thor Mountainside...

Really....
 Blake 08 Sep 2016
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Jealous! Thanks so much for taking the time to write it up!

Sitting in those hot springs in that location after a good hard days work must have felt pretty good - fired off some primal reward mechanisms.
 Adam Long 09 Sep 2016
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Great write up. Having done Lotus flower 'lite' with heli in and perfect weather, I'm seriously impressed. I wouldn't want to be on that headwall in the rain!

Looks like a lot of snow about, were you early in the season?
 jacobjacob 09 Sep 2016
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Thanks Adam . It was a pretty exposed position!

Yep we were early season, pretty sure we were the first climbers in the Cirque this year, I guess we were on the tower around the 20th of June.
 Wft 09 Sep 2016
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Wow, there it is, right there

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