Dance with the Caribou Tour

To begin this unique adventure, participants must make their way to Yellowknife - the capital city of the Canadian Northwest Territories - and then onward to the remote Chipewayan Dene' Aboriginal settlement of Lutsel K'e, located on the East Arm of Great Slave Lake - an area soon slated to become Canada's newest and largest National Park! This region is steeped in aboriginal & early explorer history, and perhaps you will have the chance to meet and spend time with some of the native elders who once traveled this remote country by dogsled and canoe.

From here, we will board a float aircraft to fly 120 more air miles past the tree-line and out over the remote Arctic tundra known locally as the 'Barrenlands'. Here we will land at our isolated wildlife base camp located on the sand esker systems of the upper Thelon River: one of the most isolated regions in mainland North America!

Once at the main wildlife base camp located at one of the last true wild wolf ranges remaining in the world, we offer comfortable tent-camp accommodations, including private sleeping Quonsets, dining & meeting room, lodge, and shower facilities. We also offer an array of equipment on site such as boats, motors, canoes, kayaks, and a pontoon boat to enhance the expeditions, to explore new areas and to seek other dens & wildlife. On occasion, we set up and offer optional ground tent 'spike camps' to maximize wildlife viewing. An aircraft is often kept at the camp for aerial reconnaissance and emergency use.

So, come join us to experience true immersion with the late summer & early autumn mixing period of the cows, calves and bulls of the Beverly & Bathurst barren-ground caribou. These are the largest and least human-influenced of the six Northwest Territories & Nunavut herds. We will likely encounter a steady source of singles and small groups of grazing caribou nearly every day during the 'mixing' period leading up to the mating period and southbound migration.