Canoeist arrives in Anchorage after 5,000-mile adventure
Minnesota adventurer Bob “Beav” Vollhaber arrived at Westchester Lagoon on Sunday after a six-month journey paddling his 17-foot canoe about 5,000 miles from Washington state to Anchorage. Vollhaber traveled “the long way” ...
... through the Inside Passage, with a portage over the Chilkoot Trail with heavy snow and snowshoes, down the Yukon River, along the Bering Sea coast, up the Kvichak River to Lake Iliamna, a portage over the Alaska Peninsula to the Cook Inlet. Vollhaber said he was "looking forward to a cheeseburger with fries ketchup and mustard and all the ice cream I can eat."
More pictures at the link.
They say he came "the long way"? That's the hard way!
5 comments:
The hard way indeed. Guess he'll write a book.
Pretty cool. But I always wonder how people manage to have funds and time to do adventures like that.
You're probably right, Stephen; might be an interesting one, for a change. Sure beats hearing about that Timothy Treadwell deadbeat.
PH, I suspect he spent a long time in preparation for such a journey.
"Ward, I was worried about the Beav. but no more..."
:-)
gfa
LOL!
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