3 Day Guided Snowmobile Ice and Exploration Adventure in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

Facilities

Your visit to Blachford begins with thrilling step back into Canada’s history: a 20-minute bush-plane flight from Yellowknife, landing on Blachford Lake, in an aircraft equipped with skis in winter, or floats in the summer. Read about the exciting bush-plane flight from Yellowknife.

Covering almost 100 kilometers, this is the ultimate snowmobile tour to view the majesty of North America’s deepest lake, and follow in the footsteps of those who explored this rarely visited region. Follow a series of winding trails and beaver ponds to an old geologist’s cabin and the remains of the ‘Rex Cafe’, a mining camp dating back to the 1930s.

Then, it’s down onto the lake’s East Arm to see the incredible ice pressure ridges. Head over to Blanchet Island: its towering cliffs also drop 600 feet below the water’s surface.

Search the shorelines for prehistoric rocks then head back to the mainland and snuggle into the ‘Hole in the Wall’. This inlet is a haven for boaters in summer and snowmobilers in winter, providing shelter from the frequent high winds of the East Arm.

Warm by a roaring campfire with a hot lunch before making your way back to the lodge, along the north shore of the Great Slave Lake, passing the abandoned Destafanny Gold Mine and a mineral exploration camp.

Skill level required for this tour: intermediate

Intermediate:

• can ride for 3-4 hours
• average riding experience
• little assistance required
• comfortable with extreme curves and leans
• average experience with unsurfaced roads
• steep ascents and descents

This tour will let you explore the wonderful surroundings of Great Slave Lake in Canada.

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Your package includes all meals and snacks; as well as coffee, tea, and juice. Vegetarian or other special dietary meals can be prepared if you inform Blachford Lake Lodge in advance.

• Guide
• Operating instructions
• Helmet with visor or goggles
• Gas and oil
• Flightseeing charter: Yellowknife - Blachford - Yellowknife
• 2 nights accommodation
• All meals and snacks
• Coffee, tea, and juice
• Housekeeping
• Welcome orientation
• Use of hot tub and sauna
• Handicraft workshop in the lodge
• Igloo / Quinzhee building (condition dependent)
• Introduction and hints about aurora photography
• Use of lodge facilities: Dining room, aurora lounge, fireplaces, northern library, bathrooms with showers, basins and toilets, hot tub, sauna, open decks
• Use of seasonal equipment (cross country skis, snowshoes, groomed 2-6k trails, fat tire bikes, firepits, skates)
• Basic Wi-Fi package (250 MB/day, additional internet packages available for purchase)
• Aurora watch service nightly
• Yoga equipment
• 2-hour interpretative experience each day
• Comprehensive pre-departure information
• Gratuities and GST

• Items of a personal nature
• Travel insurance
• Alcoholic beverages
• Winter clothing rental (available)

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 35% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.