{"id":5810,"date":"2019-04-04T22:46:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T04:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/?p=5810"},"modified":"2019-04-04T22:51:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T04:51:27","slug":"kingaunmiut-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/2019\/04\/04\/kingaunmiut-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingaunmiut Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-8.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-8-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-8-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-8-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-8-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-8-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Skull Rapids, we had a couple uneventful days of paddling and portaging. Then we got to a slightly longer portage, which would be just a small warm-up for our real portage (more on that later). But at the end of this long sweaty ordeal, we got a beautiful, flat campsite at the bottom of Kingaunmiut Falls, with a Peregrine Falcon (<i>Falco peregrinus<\/i>) scolding us for a bit before it accepted our presence as inevitable. Or maybe it realized we couldn&#8217;t scale the cliffs to get to its nest. This is also where we saw a distant herd of muskox for the first time. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-9.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-9-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-9-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-9-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-9-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-9-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-11.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-11-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5820\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-11-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-11-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-11-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-11.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-13.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-13-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-13-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-13-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-13-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Kinguanmiut-Falls-13.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notes:<br \/>\n1. All of these photos were taken near midnight.<br \/>\n2. I was saying it &#8220;King &#8211; gun &#8211; mute&#8221;. If any speakers of an Inuit language are reading, I&#8217;d love to be corrected!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Skull Rapids, we had a couple uneventful days of paddling and portaging. Then we got to a slightly longer portage, which would be just a small warm-up for our real portage (more on that later). But at the end of this long sweaty ordeal, we got a beautiful, flat campsite at the bottom of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3088,732,87,3549,728],"tags":[3566,3537,203,3564,3565,3527,3567,3539,244],"class_list":["post-5810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canoeing","category-landscape-2","category-photo-of-the-day","category-tundra","category-water-2","tag-cliff","tag-esker","tag-falls","tag-inuit","tag-muskox","tag-nunavut","tag-peregrine-falcon","tag-tundra","tag-waterfall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5810"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5835,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions\/5835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}