Day 15 - September 1: The Coliseum

An exciting thing that (mostly) everyone who paddles the Nahanni does is stick a paddle in the paddle cabin:

Apparently Trevor and Graeme have been there before.  Who knew? (Certainly not Trevor and Graeme.)

So we spent some time there.  There's also a warden cabin there (an unmanned one), and while we were there, Eric was informed by Luke that he would be running George's Riffle in this extremely effective mode of transportation:

George's Riffle was the only rapid we actually scouted before running it, since it had rocks in it and we needed to not hit them.  It was also a fairly large rapid, and I hid deep in the bowels of Heather's backpack for its duration.

But then we were in First Canyon.

After a solid 15 or 20 minutes of paddling, we stopped for lunch.  While we were eating lunch, Luke and Dan decided that we didn't need to paddle anymore (it was clearly a very long day), so we stayed put.  Luke and Dan celebrated this wise decision by taking a nap.

We then had most of the afternoon to laze about and not do anything.  Which was not the world's most fun, but I went exploring and decided it would be fun to get eaten by a rock.

At some point, the sky turned orange.  We didn't paddle particularly far, but First Canyon was definitely a pretty swell view.