...other side of the coastal mountains. The rivers upper reaches have grade 3 and 4 rapids where canyon walls compress the Inklin River to the width of the Mendenhall River. The roar of rushing water reverberates off the steep walls on either side. It's...

...bleached silver and sanded smooth by the currents, lace the silty river. By the time one reaches the Nakina and Inklin rivers, the landscape is much dryer. The forests are of white spruce, aspen, lodgepole pine, birch and fir and the mountains...