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Just back from my Ellice river trip. It went very well:

If you put in where we did, do not take a canoe you are emotionly involved with
Lots of rapids I strongly recommend a spray deck unless you enjoy walking
There are a number of significant portages
the lake trout had clearly never seen lures before

it was well worth the money it cost to get in and out.

I will put together a more detailed report over the next month or so


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These waves didn't look that big when I scouted it!

How did you get out? People I know canoed from the Back/Ellice to Cambridge Bay, and were lucky to make it alive.

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In Memory of Robert Dziekanski

we flew in from Yellowknife and got picked up at the mouth of the river and flew back to Yellowknife

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These waves didn't look that big when I scouted it!

Doug;
HUGE rapids!!!!!
Let us know once you have a trip report done.
Was the timing good? did you run into any ice on lakes IE was the ice pic at the beginning or end of trip?

Hugh

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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
M.T.

Great to hear of another Ellice trip!

We did a trip in 2005 from Healy Lake, down the Baillie, across the Back, up to and then down the Ellice to saltwater. Couldn't agree more about taking a boat that you're not emotionally tied to! On the Nunavut Canoe Routes forum, I posted a brief breakdown of the trip a while back. Check it out if you're interested.

The headwaters of the Ellice... some rugged country! Makes me smile to think about it. We dealt with ice on a tributary of the Baillie and then on some of the headwater lakes going up to the Ellice. We started June 22nd spent a week on a frozen and ice-choked river and were still skirting ice on the lakes near the Ellice on July 4th!

Mark

we flew in to goose lake on an unnamed tributary, we named it the goose river. All of the major ice was encountered in the first 2 days. There were always snow banks available to chill the chardonay

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These waves didn't look that big when I scouted it!