What a difference from yesterday. The day dawned beautiful but the biggest difference was the traffic on the road. Gone today are the endless muddy Ute’s pouring out of the wilderness from hydrocarbon exploration and processing sights. The scenery has changed to gorgeous forest, lakes and mountains again. There were…
This morning the large chip in the windscreen we received yesterday has worsened and a 5 inch crack has emerged. The campsite owner directed us to a good place for fixing windscreens. However, when we arrived there a guy was just pulling out, having locked the gates. When I asked…
Evocative names. Indicating a different kind of struggle. It’s raining this morning. All the massive mobile home buses are pulling out. Heading further west. Mainly from the US. it seems like if you don’t have the biggest home you have to have the biggest 4×4 being towed behind it. You…
Later starting as Dennis did some minor maintenance. (No more comments about mechanical issues today!) Coming south down, the Alaska Highways is a pretty ride. We followed the Liard River for miles. It is quite a substantial river, and a number of other smaller rivers, as the day went on. …
It’s close to 9pm and we have made camp and enjoyed a great repast. Our camp tonight is probably no more than 80m from the main highway. In a small clearing that I suspect was used by contractors to park machinery during the roads construction, or reconstruction. Only a tiny…
Our last morning on the Dempster Highway. We stopped to photograph Tombstone Mountain. Soon after we passed a lake with some beaver dens and dams. We would love to see beavers so went for a walk to investigate. Sadly no beavers to be found, but the dams were very impressive.…
Greyness greeted us when we emerged at 8.30am. Another shower this morning!! We’ll be dissolving! The camp site was a couple of k’s past Inuvik and a much more peaceful site. Jen seemed to sleep through the domestic’s, portable generators, barking dogs, idiots doing wheelies in the town, the previous…
A very bad night last night. It was unbelievably warm. More like being in the southern Mediterranean than the Artic. To cool us down we had the roof vents wide open and at 1am the sun was still shining through. Getting to sleep in broad daylight is difficult. Consequently we…
Happy Birthday Dad. 107 today. Shame you only made it to 70. 🙁 A great camp site last night. Secluded, sheltered and only a few campers. The last few nights have been freezing so we put another layer on the bed, but it was a warm night, till about 4am. …
The Dempster is supposed to be a contender for Canada”s most scenic and challenging drive. Yukon and the Northwest Territories are certainly absolutely vast and empty, but are a tame wilderness. There is no comparison to Siberia the Stans and Mongolia. The Dempster may be a gravel road, but it…