Re: Ruby Range Teslin / Yukon River Canoe Tour

Having researched a canoe trip in the historic Yukon area of Canada with reasonable care I had no particular cause for concern that I had picked the right one from those available through the internet.

However cracks gradually appeared and my final experience was well below the expectation created by the web site :-
*Having paid we were given a login to the web site but this contained no additional info
*Co-incidentally arriving at the same time as a German girl booked with the same company neither of us had any details for our river departure early the following day
*I happened to be the only non-German speaker out of 14 on my trip (I'm a Brit) which made it very hard work and lonely with 9 days in the back country even though the group were very friendly
*Despite the massive historic significance of the area and obvious environmental features I left the experience with about as much information/knowledge as I started.
*I have experienced many back country trips around the world but the food was amongst the poorest I have experienced.Badly planned and delivered. No fresh veg until day 3, no fresh fruit until day 4, this is inappropriate in 2010.

Our guides were friendly and helpful and I am sure fully competent to protect our safety on the water but neither had much experience of the area nor seemingly any in depth knowledge.

I would not recommend Ruby Range to other travellers ESPECIALLY to non-German speakers as I feel their planning and delivery of this trip fell well short of the expectation created by the web site and price.

Whilst I think the trip represented very poor value for money I would still recommend the Yukon / Whitehorse / Klondike area to any adventure travellers as it is a great place