Ahhh… summer. With the dog days of July upon us, I’m making my way north for my annual wandering pilgrimage, disappearing for a while into a wilderness new and mysterious to me. This year I’m headed off with my buddy Alex Kozma on a 1,200 kilometre, 30-day northern canoe journey in the Yukon and Northwest Territories (see attached route map). I’m calling the expedition Nèhtrùh, which is the local Indigenous Gwich’in word for wolverine.