In July 2009, Cory Lindsay, Mike MacFerrin, and Karl Schmitt will venture into the heart of the most intact and remote temperate rainforests on earth. The nothern coast of British Columbia encompasses 7,700 square miles of labyrinthine fjords and ancient woods known collectively as the "Great Bear Rainforest". Princess Royal Island, at 869 square miles, is the largest island on BC's northern coast, and among the most remote and rugged on earth. The island has no permanent residents, no maintained roads, no trails, and some of the thickest, most biologically productive coastal rainforests on the planet. Few people visit Princess Royal, and those who do rarely venture far from shore. For three weeks, the Journey of the Spirit Bear will cross the trackless interior of Princess Royal Island, traversing routes that have rarely been seen by humans. Entirely self-supported, traveling by foot and packraft, the team will likely not encounter another human until reaching the Village of Klemtu three weeks later (on Swindle Island to the south).