Come to a land beyond the reach of all roads, to a land that throbs with life during the brief nothern summer.
As your aircraft circles to a landing strip 30 miles north of the arctic circle at Bathurst Inlet, the immensity of this land becomes reality. Man is dwarfed by this landscape. You will be lodged in comfort in a historic Hudson's Bay Trading Post and Oblate mission which have been transformed into a haven for naturalists. Bathurst Inlet Lodge was established in 1969, by Glenn and Trish Wagner, longtime northerners. The local Inuit people known as the Kingaunmiut or "people of the nose" (after a local landmark), are co-owners in the lodge and proudly involved in its operation.
During most of the year, they live in the old ways, hunting caribou, musk oxen and seal, fishing, trapping, and travelling on the land. A unique aspect of a visit to the Lodge is the opportunity to get to know the gentle people who make this harsh land their home.
In summer you travel on the Inlet in a stable and comfortable pontoon boat, which permits wildlife observation and on the sport lectures. You dock and hike on the land, exploring, birdwatching, or visiting islands of ancient algal limestone, crowded with arctic poppies, cinquefoils and saxifrages, where glaucous, herring and Thayer's gulls nest in safety from hunting foxes.
Pergrine falcons and rough-legged hawks nest on glacier-carved cliffs, and golden eagles soar in lazy spirals against the dark summits.
The pace is casual, provisions are made for guests to hike as much (or as little)as you like. Walk to spectacular waterfalls, or gasp in excitement as an arctic char lunges at your lure. Watch as caribou wend their way over ancestral trails, or musk oxen pound over the tundra. Seek a perfect specimen of amethyst, or capture a "pet-rock" on an arctic beach. Wander over the incredible oriental carpet of the summer tundra, where drifts of lupine, arctic heather, mountain avens, rhododendron, and dozens of other wildflowers bloom in intense profusion.
The season is short, but there is something for everyone in each week. Early in the seaon, the small birds are nesting. Any of the first three weeks is excellent for flowers, louseworts, bearberry, and great shows of heather, rhododendron. Raptors, gulls and loons nest throughout the season. Early in the summer, you can visit the sea ice, and later can range more freely on the Inlet, visiting ancient campsites and following the path of the Franklin expedition.
For further information you may contact the Bathurst Inlet Lodge at 403-873-2595 or email at [email protected].
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