If you can't visit the Stikine River soon, experience it through Bonnie Demerjian's book about the great river.
Alaska and Canada's Stikine River is one of the great trans-boundary rivers found threading its way through the coastal mountains of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia. A friend of mine, Bonnie Demerjian of Wrangell Island, Alaska has written a comprehensive guide to the Stikine, describing its path from headwaters in the Spatsizi Plateau to waters of the Pacific Ocean at the river's delta.
The book is perfect for future fans of the great river. Wrangell and the Stikine were some of the first parts of Alaska visited by John Muir who called the river a "Yosemite 100 miles long." The Stikine saw prospective miners travel it in both the Cassiar gold rush of 1873 and Klondike rush that followed in 1898. Boaters of all sorts will love the river, opportunities for rafting, canoing, kakaking and powerboating abound. The river navigable by powerboat 160 miles from the delta near Wrangell to Telegraph Creek, British Columbia.
Roll On! Discovering the Wild Stikine River is published by Stikine River Books
