After a couple of days on the Dempster (somewhere between 700 and 800 km of dirt road), we arrived in Inuvik on Sunday evening. The daylight up here, even this late in the year, is hard to get used to. Darkness doesn’t completely come and it’s still sunny at about 11pm. Add that to nights spent watching the northern lights rather than sleeping and you have some very strange sleep schedules starting to form. We had to force ourselves to get up with an alarm today in order to be ready for a charter to Tuktoyaktuk, on the Arctic ocean. The town of Inuvik itself is quite large and developed from what we’ve seen. Today we’ll get our incredibly muddy bikes off the truck and do a bit of exploring. Below are a few pictures of our trip. I’m sure we’ll get more time to explain them when we return, but as always, we’re eager to get out there and enjoy the adventure, rather than documenting it all in detail. The photos are from along the Dempster and our overnight camping stops. No major mishaps on the road, except for one flat, which we enjoyed changing in a blackfly infested roadside pullout at sunset. Our consolation prize was the excellent makeshift campsite we picked out a little down the road, where the northern lights blanketed the sky from dusk to dawn.
Nearly full moon and the Northern Lights along the Dempster
Lana and Doug in Tombstone Territorial Park
Doug in Tombstone
My bike, after two hours on the Dempster (usually it's green)
Sunset as we were changing our flat tire
Aurora at dusk along the Dempster
Aurora at 2am along the Dempster
Slow Aurora near Fort Macpherson
Aurora in Fort Macpherson
A roadside Inukshuk just south of Inuvik, north of the Arctic circle
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