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Coppermine River Canoe 1987: July 20. The river is fast and has frequent whitewater. In one big set of waves, water entered Colin and Ben's boat through the front opening the spray cover. They sank again. It took all four of the other boats to get both people and canoe to shore - it's a big and fast river. It was probably fortunate that the only team that swamped on this trip (twice) were also the only ones wearing wetsuits. But remember the water temperature was in the 60s. We built a fire and were warming everyone when Ben noticed some metalic copper in a vein.


Date: 2022:12:30 17:35:12     File: wRCW55510_G.jpg
Camera: PENTAX K-5 -- Lens: smc PENTAX-D FA Macro 100mm F2.8 WR at 100.0 mm -- Exposure: 1/13 f/8.0 ISO 800