Skeena Swim Blog
Friday, August 14: Shannon blogs from Cassiar Cannery
Shannon writes from the Cassiar Cannery as the team recuperates from a long day on the water.
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Thursday, August 13: Seals and saltwater! The end is near!
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Wednesday, August 12: Energy flagging, Ali calls in only two days upstream from the finish line
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Tuesday, August 11: Brian talks about the arrival in Kitsumkalum and their experiences on the lower Skeena
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Sunday, August 09: Ali on Kitselas Canyon and the celebration at Kitsumkalum
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Thursday, August 06: Chris calls from Kitwanga
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Tuesday, August 04: Brian Huntington writes from Gitsegukla Village
BRIAN:The river and landscape have changed. The sky feels enormous and the views of mountains are distant and slow. We got our first glimpse of the Seven Sisters and realized that it will take us about four days to float around them.
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Monday, August 03: Ali: “It feels like there’s a new start to the trip now
ALI:Our day started at Don and Stanita Messier's who had shown us incredible hospitality overnight, and we floated on to Kispiox village where Roy Henry Vickers led us and 50-odd paddlers who had come to join us in a wonderful song, a paddler's song, that really set the rhythm tone for the day -- I know it was in all of our heads.
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Saturday, August 01: Kayaker Kim talks about Youth On Water and the importance of taking care of the Skeena
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Friday, July 31: A challenging day of swirly water, hard oaring, and smoke from fires
It's Ali, it is July 31st, and it's my good friend Wes Martin's birthday. And I wanted to mention him because Wes pretty much paid for today. He made it possible for us to be out on the water by donating a huge day of work for E.L.F. silviculture, which the company then matched.
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Thursday, July 30: The team’s first video blog!
Ali and the team gather at their Kuldo camp to reflect on their downstream progress and their reasons for the expedition.
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Wednesday, July 29: Ali on a short day of whitewater to Sheladamus Creek
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ALI: We had a short day in which we swam and rafted and kayaked from O'Dwyer Canyon to just below Sheladamus Creek, so we travelled about 20 or 25 kilometres. Which didn't take very long at all; in fact it felt like we spent about 45 minutes on the water today...
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Tuesday, July 28: Aaron reports on the team’s first rest day of the trip
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Monday, July 27: Brian calls from O’Dwyer Canyon
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Saturday, July 25: Chris Gee talks about the whitewater downstream of the Sustut
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Friday, July 24: Jim calls from the confluence of the Mosque River
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Thursday, July 23: A truncated report from Kim the kayaker
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Wednesday, July 22: Ali is a swimmin’-frickin-machine!
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SHANNON: We went through some of the craziest boulder gardens, the water was insane, the raft guides were absolutely tuckered, but the raft got left in Ali's dust! We could not keep up with her, she is so fast and so strong.
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Tuesday, July 21: Bumping through the boulder gardens to Otsi Creek
ALI: A big cannonball into the Skeena, and the kayakers Kim and Chris did a great little drop off of a small cascade, and then we got going.
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Monday, July 20: The night before departure
ALI: It's the eve of the start of our journey, and I wonder how I will be able to sleep tonight. So many people have worked so hard to get us here. Some of us for years. Now it's my turn to shoulder -- literally -- the burden.
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Thursday, July 16: A Big THANK YOU from Ali
ALI : We are four short days away from getting wet. To say I have butterflies would be putting it mildly; I think there is a crow flapping around in my gut...
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Monday, July 13: En Francais…
ALI - Yikes! I just completed what may just be the hardest preparation I have yet had to do for the swim...
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Thursday, July 09: Ali the “Slacker”
SHANNON: "I can help you prepare food or stack gear - just let me know what needs to be done, the only thing I'm doing is training...
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Monday, July 06: Only 11 days left
ALI: I cannot believe we depart for the Headwaters in 11 days. Eeep! ...
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Friday, June 05: Ali visits Skeena schools, kids get pumped about swim
BRIAN: Ali has been on the road over the last month, visiting schools up and down the Skeena and throughout the watershed from Prince Rupert to Houston. Her presentation provides an educational piece on what a “watershed” is and why the Skeena watershed has become such a globally significant place.
