Hide Article Text (OCR)
Ifs ike People You Meet/’ Says Pilot Herm Lerdahl After EncounterFairbanks Aviator Bumps Into Two Canoe-Paddlers from Mew York Near Fort YukonIt's a siTiUl! world, right enough, but still sufficiently unjadc-d to permit at least a tilted eyebrow at report of the meeting of three travelers near Port Yukon. Alaska —one an hour and a half out of Fairbanks by airplane, the ethers two years out of New York by canoe.Weary of waiting for the International Highway, Mr. and Mrs.With the warmth, of May the New Yorkers returned. - to thdr paddles, followed the Saskatchewan River. Near Edmonton, Alberta, was the only place they hung up their canoe to dry while they transferred to another conveyance. They rode by rail to Water Ways. Then, back into the drink went m canoe. Along the Athabasca, th Great Stcr.e River, the mighty Mac Kenzie through Fort McPherso: to the Rat River they stroked.^ ~ Toughest Grind3Elkan J. Morris pushed off frontNew York in their canoe in May of 1938 with Alaska as their destination .They were drifting down the Porcupine to ForL Yukon when Pilot Herman Lerdahl landed on a river bar last week.Cabin on Porcupine Now' occupying a cabin on the Porcupine 17 miles north of Fort Yukon, the New York couple are at the destination which lured thorp from metroikiiitan life to probably the coldest section of North America. There, in his remote back yard. Morris will engage in scientific trapping. a personal research project, for a year, and maybe two.The canoers spent last winter, from September until May, on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. They had boated to the Great Lakes via the Hudson River and tributary waterways. Up the Pigeon River they paddled. At International Falls the only sour note” in their entire strenuous journe y was sounded.Single “Sour NoteCamera equipment and other belongings valued at SHOO were pilfered from their unguarded canoe during their absence -They reached Lake Winnipeg via Lake of the Woods and the Winnipeg River.Toughest grind of the trip we,, a 40-mile portage over the northern peaks of the Rockies — a stunt which required 21 days while tracking their leaded boat.After they reached Old Crow on the Porcupine, the home stretch was in sight.Mr And Mrs. Morris were bound for Fort Yukon fc-r supplies and a taste of civilization. when they spotted Lerdal'.rs plane, the first they had seen in many weeks.Ltrdahi learned Moms is a graduate of New York University. His|c; t i e; viifcilt;5Complete Stock of GroceiMail Orders Promp(Fairbanks,
Newspaper Details
Fairbanks Alaska Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Tue, Oct 15, 1940
Page 31
Full Page
Clipped by
Paul S.
AZ, USA 20 Apr 2024
Other Publications Near Fairbanks, Alaska
Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Daily News Miner
Fairbanks Weekly News Miner
Fairbanks Evening News
Fairbanks Daily Times
