Into Alaska - Searching for a Cabin & Portage to Glacier | 10-Days Camping in Alaskan & BC Wild

Into Alaska - Searching for a Cabin & Portage to Great Glacier. 10-Days Family Camping in the Alaskan & B.C. Wild The rain won’t let up and we’re all soaked to the bone. Out map notes say there’s a cabin in the area but we can’t find it. Our notes are 30 years old so, maybe it’s not there anymore we figure. I pull up on a sand bar and I get out of the canoe and walk ahead. My wife Tori think’s there’s no cabin to be found but I see a faint trail going up the muddy bank into thick northern rainforest vegetation. We follow it and sure enough, we find the small trapper’s cabin which is nestled into a stand of giant Sitka Spruce. The cabin had a large woodstove and many hooks for hanging cloths to dry. I cut a bunch of wood and got a nice fire going while Tori cooked up a delicious medal of poutine for dinner and heavy rain continued to pelt the tin roof. When the next morning came, the rain hadn’t let up. We cooked up breakfast, cleaned up the cabin and