Les Voyageurs Paddle to the Arctic Ocean
7 Oct
Minnesota’s St. Cloud Times wrote THIS comprehensive story about a local youth paddling group known as Les Voyageurs. The non-profit organization has been sending young paddlers down northern rivers for 30 years, but this year, for the first time, Les Voyageurs went all the way to the Arctic Ocean.
A six-member crew paddled down Canada’s Coppermine River which flows through the Northwest Territories and Nunavut above the Arctic Circle. During the 28-day trip the crew of high school-aged trippers and their leader saw grizzly bears and caribou herds and battled the Arctic’s fabled insects.
“This is a big-scale adventure to pull this off,” Les Voyageurs director Fred Rupp said in the story. “It’s a very remote river and there’s a tremendous amount of whitewater. It’s considered a dream trip by people who are passionate about wilderness paddling.”
Learn more about the Les Voyageurs program HERE.
