{"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":"

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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 (Falco peregrinus<\/i>) scolding us for a bit before it accepted our presence as inevitable. Or maybe it realized we couldn’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

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Notes:
\n1. All of these photos were taken near midnight.
\n2. I was saying it “King – gun – mute”. If any speakers of an Inuit language are reading, I’d love to be corrected!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/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"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t