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Beyond the Height-of-Land | 25 Days of High Adventure in the Northern Manitoba Wild - E.18 - Solo Rapids and Smashed-in Canoe: Wild camping deep off-grid, outdoor life at its finest, it’s a windy morning when my brother @TheRealTedBaird and I break camp at a traditional indigenous Dene campsite. The site lays across from a large esker and at the head of a massive island that divides the mighty Seal River into two dramatic channels which are both Ram-packed full of whitewater. We chose the south channel, and as we pushed off from camp, we reminded each other that it was time we should start keeping an eye out for Polar Bears as we grow closer to the Hudson Bay coast.

Baerly into the day we narrowly skirt an intense class 4 + rapid and see a seal playing in the waves as we run it, soon we run Nine Bar Rapids, a 2km + long class three and we doge boulders and holes, then eddy-out before an un-runnable ledge at the rapid’s base. Scouting the ledge, we decide we can line it which we do successfully. Then we cast for Arctic Grayling as two curious Seals fish the same eddies as us. Turns out, the Seals have more luck than us as we can’t land a fish ao we move on as it’s getting late.

Discouraged that there’s nowhere to camp as we move down river that evening we still enjoy cruising in the strong current and viewing dozens of Bald Eagles and Seals until we reach the base of the massive island where the two channels converge and the river grows massive insize because of it. Here, we get up close to a Bald Eagle that seems too weak to fly, likely from hunger was our guess. There were so many eagles in the vicinity, it maybe there wasn’t enough food to go around.

With no other choice we’re forced to hike up a steep esker that protrudes into the river in order to find a flat place to camp. It’s hard work to say the least but we’re rewarded with beautiful views all around.

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