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and soaked in Kraus ’ s Hot Springs . As we passed through The Splits , we saw bison , and a wolverine ran along the rocky shore until it spotted us and disappeared .
Miraculously , even though Yellowknife five hundred kilometres to the east had been evacuated because of forest fires , it was still smoke-free and sunny when a Twin Otter landed on the river at Nahanni Butte to fly us out .
It had been a remarkable journey . However , the Nahanni Valley , almost timeless by our standards , had demonstrated that humans live on a very different time scale . My 78 th birthday was a month away , and I was reminded how much I had aged in the nine years since my previous trip .
Werner Becker is professor emeritus at the University of Calgary and author of Rafting the Great Northern Rivers . He lives with his wife and travel companion , Ruth , in Calgary .
Upper pool in Lafferty Canyon : pristine but very cold
WEEK OF APRIL 22 , 2024
HEART AND SOLE WELLNESS WALK
Get out , get active , get together !
• Bonnyville
• Calgary
• Cold Lake
• Edmonton
• Elk Point
• Grande Prairie
• Lac La Biche
• Lacombe
• Lethbridge
• Medicine Hat
• Morinville
• Okotoks
• Peachland , BC
• Red Deer
• Sherwood Park
• St . Paul
• Stettler
• Vermilion
• Wainwright
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