In March 2010, I received a telephone call from Bob, asking if I could accompany with him to Dalton Post, to try to recover a raft that had travelled past the take-out at Dalton Post during the summer of 2009.…
At the age of 14, I had started whitewater kayaking and met Bob that same summer. Because of him, I was able to experience the whitewater of the Tatshenshini and Tutshi Rivers right away. Bob was a teacher, a confidant,…
In March 2014 Whitehorse Patrol Rangers Bob Daffe, Pat Hogan and Tom Nelson along with Carcross Ranger Chris Cassia were part of an exercise that began on the land at Eagle Plains and travelled along the winter road and Porcupine…
The first Ranger exercice I went on with Bob was Primrose Lake. We battled our way up the river, open in many spots, dragging machines around rocks and shovelling in holes so we could get to the lake. We came…
A few years ago, I helped Bob and Theresa guide a Japanese film crew down the Alsek river to Dry Bay, at the beginning of a record high water year. We paddled the upper section in howling headwinds all the…
It was a seven-river trip down from Notellem Lake to the road where the big Yellow bus waited. Everything you expected from another Yukon September, the colours in the trees, the smell of fallen leaves with wet dew, the sound of Bob's perfect long…
When Bob and I heard of a few Bison hanging around the first few kilometres of the Ashihik Rd. we quickly put our skidoos and gear together in the big yellow bus with a trailer and headed out very early the next…
It was a very cold morning in September, ice lined the shores of Ross River. Frozen gear from the day before piled and hung around the open morning fire trying to warm and thaw! It was hard to shake off the…
I met Bob playing broomball, he asked if I would be interested in rafting. Response: "Okay". "Would you like to learn how to row a rowing frame?" "Okay", and there I was going down the Tatshenshini river learning to be…
The first day I met Bob he had just had an article printed about him in a magazine and everyone on the Tat was joking around and calling him “The Amphibious Deity” (which was apparently the title of the article: …
A bear! I remember these as spring SASE 9 trips. I remember Bob & I were to assist, teacher Jenny Darling. Each time I pass this site on the Takhini River, my memory is beckoned. Over the years the site’s…
Ahhh spring day in May, Sun shining, grade 9’s practising canoe skills on the Takhini River, now hanging’ around the Jaws. Kids chattering in anticipation, hoping for a chance to see whether the Jaws would be open, or closed… their…
