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Garrett Sheets is currently a junior at the University of Alaska Fairbanks majoring in physics and minoring in history. During the summer he works for the Boy Scouts of America teaching basic scout skills to youth and taking out of state troops down the Yukon River.

Photo by G.M. Sheets

About the Yukon River

The Yukon River is the longest river in Alaska, with its headwaters located in British Columbia and entering the ocean at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The Yukon is over 2,000 miles long with 150 of those miles existing between Eagle Alaska and Circle Alaska, the best places to enter and exit in Alaska if one wants to canoe on the Yukon. Between these two villages the river generally runs between seven and nine miles per hour, meaning that one can easily get between Eagle and Circle in five days. Camping generally occurs on gravel bars however there are also BLM and National Park Service cabins along the way on a first come, first serve basis, however they can be extremely difficult to find.


Video by the National Park Service 6