Coppermine River, Nunavut, 2021

Our group was one of a small few, if not the only group, who squeaked into Nunavut between 3rd and 4th waves of Covid and its associated travel restrictions to paddle the Coppermine this past summer. Our second trip down this river was as amazing as the first time we did it in 2015 with world class fishing, wild life sightings, and kilometer after kilometer of white water.

[@a1m598]

This was an epic adventure. Thank you for sharing. John Franklin's Coppermine Expedition is one of my most favourite stories to read and this video helps bring his words to light.

[@kentorlando8676]

Thanks. The historical background for this river is not lost on me or my paddling partners. Paddling the same waters as traversed by Hearne and Franklin decades ago is memorable. I didn’t include it in this video, but we found an old cast frying pan that I think may have been left behind by George Douglas during one of overland expeditions in the early 1900’s. Pretty cool. Even more powerful for me though was meeting some of the indigenous people and talking to them about living life so far North and their connection to the land. We discovered almost pure pieces of copper that the Inuit ancestors used for their tools.

[@johnbosman3219]

Just fantastic. I rarely watch more than 4-5 minutes of any video on YT but this kept me engaged the entire time. Well done and a great adventure.

[@kentorlando8676]

Thanks brother. I had 4 hours of video and pics worth of footage, but I try to keep my videos to 15 min or less for attention span purposes. Such a great river.

[@johnbosman3219]

@@kentorlando8676 Wow. Great job of editing, and the music choices are fabulous. You had me well hooked when I saw the Y-Knife airport and polar bear and then Air Tindi. As a fisherman that has fished NWT and Nunavut I greatly enjoyed your fishing sequences.

[@henrymostert2125]

Wow I'm glad I found this that look like a spectacular trip. Thanks for sharing that

[@gojumpintothelake]

Amazing love every minute of it

[@kentorlando8676]

Thanks!

[@canoeman1961]

Boy, you sure packed a lot into a short film. Very entertaining.

[@DempsterDave]

Thanks for sharing the adventure guys.

[@tanyablaney3771]

Thanks for sharing this awesome adventure!

[@chrisnorlock9648]

Wow just wow

[@worldsfastestube7302]

Man what an adventure so glad you shared it the drone shots were awesome thank you

[@Grasshopper4313]

Great Adventure,love the scenery.

[@Proehal]

7:19 - 7:21 excellent!!!

[@KS_Mars]

Hope to see you again in the up coming years!

[@kentorlando8676]

Thanks Hunter, it was really nice meeting you and your friends!

[@Martin_G]

Awesome trip Kent. Incredible fish! Looked a bit like you were going too far left in Rocky Defile. Sketchy! Did Air Tindy supply your boats? Did you fly commercial back from KugluKtuk?

[@kentorlando8676]

Thanks Martin. The other boat was a bit too left into the exploding waves. They didn’t follow our boat’s lead but we all made it through. Rented canoes from Overlander in Yellowknife and arranged for them to be flown back from Kugluktuk by Buffalo Air.

[@kentorlando8676]

We flew back with Air North.

[@ot965]

I made the same trip 1985

[@Bjpeg42]

What're we looking at at 9:00?

[@kentorlando8676]

Interesting rock deposits.

[@kevinm3912]

Beaautiful!

[@williamisbister676]

I hope they never dam this river

[@ETGrc]

Made it 5 minutes 39 seconds and had to turn it off. Why the stupid music 🤔

[@kentorlando8676]

Hi. Thanks for the positive comments. I’m not a professional video producer. KZbin will often mute video that contains proprietary music so the choice of non-sanctioned songs is limited. You can always mute it 😊. Cheers.