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The Great Summer Caribou Migration!
All photos on this webpage have been taken by our clients while attending Great Canadian Wildlife Adventures over the past seasons of our field operations - at our various wildlife camp locations in the northern Canada |
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Join us in Canada's mainland Arctic & sub-Arctic to encounter the mid-summer southbound migration of the massive barrenground caribou herds - one of the last great wildlife spectacles in North America since the bygone days of the buffalo...
The Barrenground caribou herds of western Canada & Alaska are in trouble: over the past few years, the herd population numbers have been diminishing rapidly. Come see the caribou while you still can - we still know how to find them! The barrenground caribou of northern Canada have some of the largest & least influenced congregates in
the world. Every year, many thousands of animals migrate
from the tree-line to the calving grounds on the remote Arctic tundra, and
then back again during the summer and autumn. Our wildlife camps are
set up near one of the main southbound migratory routes, often allowing us high quality caribou migration encounters. |
Click here to make your reservation on the 2013 'Great Summer Caribou Migration' trips!
2012 'Great Summer Caribou Migration' Departures:
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Prices (Rates do not include the HST tax)
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July 13-20, 2012 |
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Single: $7,995.00
US - $7,995.00 CAD Double: $14,000.00 US - $14,000.00 CAD |
July 20-27, 2012 |
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Single: $7,995.00
US - $7,995.00 CAD Double: $14,000.00 US - $14,000.00 CAD |
Our 2012 summer caribou migration trips have been sold out to a documentary film crew - sorry...
Check out our 2012 autumn caribou trips, or join us in 2013 instead!
2013 'Great Summer Caribou Migration' Departures:
Departure Dates |
Seats Left |
Prices (Rates do not include the HST tax)
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TBA |
8 |
Single: $7,995.00
US - $7,995.00 CAD Double: $14,000.00 US - $14,000.00 CAD |
TBA |
7 |
Single: $7,995.00
US - $7,995.00 CAD Double: $14,000.00 US - $14,000.00 CAD |
You have the choice to combine two weeks of 'the Great Summer Caribou Migration' at a reduced rate!
Add on $3,995.00 USD // $3,995.00 CDN per person
All prices do not include the HST tax, which is 13% for Canadians and 6.5% for foreign visitors
Click here to make your reservation on the 2013 'Great Summer Caribou Migration' trips!
Please email us at tundra@thelon.com to obtain the detailed trip supplement for the 2012 'Great Summer Caribou Migration trips in PDF format
Check out our mini-movie on-line: Summer caribou herd: dangerous water crossing
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This special wildlife expedition offers one of the best chances for a rare opportunity to encounter the caribou herds en-masse!
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We will start this unique wildllife adventure by boarding a charter aircraft at a remote northern settlement that offers the best charter air access distance to the summer caribou migration, and embark on a 50-250 km journey to the remote sub-Arctic tundra known locally as the 'Barrenlands'. We will then land at one of our remote wildlife camps - uniquely situated at one of the most isolated regions in mainland North America!
Click here to learn more about how to get to our wilderness trips Once at one of our unique wildlife camps - situated at one of the last strongholds of healthy barrenground caribou herd populations remaining in the world, we typically offer comfortable & catered tent-camp accommodations including sleeping tents with cots, dining & shower facilities. Depending on the needs of the specific site, we also provide an array of equipment such as boats & motors, canoes & kayaks to enhance the expeditions; to explore new areas and to seek other dens & wildlife. On occasion, we set up and offer ground tent 'spike camps' to maximize wildlife viewing. Click here to learn more about our wildlife camps facilities & services |
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From a scenic and remote tundra location, you will enjoy daily meals & comfortable tent accommodations.
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In the meantime, through a series of techniques that includes aerial reconnaissance, satellite imagery, GPS positioning & traditional knowledge, we will keep monitor the movements of the caribou herds - and once they move close enough to our position (within 100 miles) we will fly out to meet them on their migratory route. |
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We will then attempt to position participants to see and photograph the summer large 'bunch' movements usually 5,000 - 50,000 animals - of cows & calves of one of the major barrenground caribou herds as they traditionally migrate southward off their calving grounds in July.
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Check out our mini-movie on-line: The great summer caribou migration
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Depending on the circumstances, such as how far the herd is located from the main camp, the suitability of the country, and the logistics needed to access that specific area, we will either set up an overnight spike camp, or simply spend a day with the migration and head back to overnight at the active main camp.
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Designed for photographers and wildlife enthusiasts, we will accept only a total of eight participants on this special expedition.
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While on this special departure and depending where the caribou migration route is from season to season, participants will sometimes encounter musk-oxen herds, & very possibly white tundra wolves during their secondary-stage den cycle. It is also quite possible that we will encounter foxes, moose plus a variety of nesting raptors and waterfowl - all under the midnight twilight of the Arctic summertime! Click here to obtain our bird list (in PDF)
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Incredible wildlife opportunities
and awesome tundra vistas highlight this
very special departure to one of the most remote
wilderness locations on earth!
2012 'Great Summer Caribou Migration' Departures:
Departure Dates |
Seats Left |
Prices (Rates do not include the HST tax)
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July 13-20, 2012 |
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Single: $7,995.00
US - $7,995.00 CAD Double: $14,000.00 US - $14,000.00 CAD |
July 20-27, 2012 |
0 |
Single: $7,995.00
US - $7,995.00 CAD Double: $14,000.00 US - $14,000.00 CAD |
Our 2012 summer caribou migration trips have been sold out to a documentary film crew - sorry...
Check out our 2012 autumn caribou trips, or join us in 2013 instead!
2013 'Great Summer Caribou Migration' Departures:
Departure Dates |
Seats Left |
Prices (Rates do not include the HST tax)
|
TBA |
8 |
Single: $7,995.00
US - $7,995.00 CAD Double: $14,000.00 US - $14,000.00 CAD |
TBA |
7 |
Single: $7,995.00
US - $7,995.00 CAD Double: $14,000.00 US - $14,000.00 CAD |
You have the choice to combine two weeks of 'the Great Summer Caribou Migration' at a reduced rate!
Add on $3,995.00 USD // $3,995.00 CDN per person
All prices do not include the HST tax, which is 13% for Canadians and 6.5% for foreign visitors
Click here to make your reservation on the 2013 'Great Summer Caribou Migration' trips!
Please email us at tundra@thelon.com to obtain the detailed trip supplement for the 2013 'Great Summer Caribou Migration trips in PDF format
Check out what some of our clients had to say about this incredible adventure:
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Photographer Christopher Crowley Past client Chris Crowley had a magnificent experience on his Great Summer Caribou Migration trip. Click here or on photo to read Chris's on-line testimonial! Chris had this to say about his trip with us: "The circle of life is pretty
small on the tundra. Caribou eat lichen. Almost everything else eats the
caribou. Circles lie within circles. Every spring, large herds of caribou
(Rangifer tarandus) migrate hundreds of miles northward to the calving
grounds and return later in the summer. We watched as several groups of
caribou, hundreds in each group, crossed a river. In places they swam,
heads bobbing in the river. In shallower places they waded, stumbling on
slick rocks. The calves had to hustle to keep up with the crossing adults.
Once the herd reached land, however, they were all off and running with a
rumbling of hooves oddly muted by the soft
ground."
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Northern Lights Past client & Canadian Author Catherine Senecal won the prestigious Canadian Travel Commission's Northern Lights Award for Excellence in Travel Journalism for best Internet Reporting. Well, Cathy's winning story was written about her year 2000 trip with us on the 'Great Summer Caribou Migration'! Click here or on photo to read Catherine's' on-line article! Catherine had this to say about her trip with us: "I loved the camp and being out on the barrens-I even love saying, "when I was out on the barren lands" to people. It makes me sound so adventurous! The truth is your trip, camp and tour make this stunning land and its animals accessible to people willing to let their minds and spirits compel them to a place perhaps more wild and epiphanic than they could have predicted." |
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