Dempster (2) : Yukon & Northwest Territories
1. VivaLaVida hit the Demster toward North again, still further north…
2. Chapmann Lake
3. While Tumbstone Mountains are granite, the rest of the road passes through limestone hills.
4. Entry in Eagle Plains, an immense plateau of boreal forest and tundra depending on altitude.
5. I stop at a viewpoint and I have a neighbor! 😉
6. The weather turns bad…
7. The next day, its in the rain that I take the road again.
8. Here’s boreal forest. Here she wears the nickname “Drunken forest” because growing on the permafrost, the roots can not go more than two feet deep and winds make lean / fall these small conifers.
9. Mandatory photo stop at the passage of the Arctic Circle!
10. Showers again…
11. … making nice ambiances.
12.Difficult to show the vastness of the tundra…
13. “Riding the Dempster”! 😀
14. The snow has disappeared only two weeks earlier and flowers are blooming the tundra.
15. Clouds pursuing VivaLaVida !
16. New photo stop entering the province of the Northwest Territories.
17. Going down in the “low lands”, there are two ferries to cross the Peel River first here, then the Mackenzie River, the second longest river in North America after the Missouri/Mississippi.
18. Small village of Tsiigehtchic on the bank of the Mackenzie River.
19. Arrival at Inuvick, the terminus of the road, in the Mackenzie River Delta.
20. Inuvick icon, the “Igloo Church”.
21. Construction all made of wood by a French Compagnon carpenter without drawings and without freezing underground system to keep the permafrost frozen ..! The design is pretty awesome with a natural ventilation system to replace it.
22. The plates of the Northwest Territories are cool, isn’t it? 😉
To be followed soon by my arrival in Alaska!
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I can clearly feel the pulse of ‘the far north’ with each fresh entry ! Man, it’s so peaceful and clean of clutter … how’s it feel to you !
Now and then I notice that your rear door glass seems to stand out from their door’s .. as if their double pane or maybe there’s a outer ‘bear proof see through barrier …. what’s the story ‘ Captain’ ?
By the way … are you armed ? As in shotgun and or 357 ? Just curious
Good times up north … Catch you later .. best to you and your rig!
As far I can remember, I always loved northern landscape, especially tundra like landscape, without tree. I’m writing this answer while I’m in Deadhorse AK, at the end of the Dalton HWY, it’s still more “far North” here and I definitely enjoy it.
About the rear windows, my van was a regular cargo van, without any window. Doors of van with window are different, so mine are about half an inch “outside” the door. It’s the same on the side barn doors but I made a protection to avoid tree branches to hit and break the windows…
Non, I don’t have any gun, never had on and don’t want to have one.
What about progress on Polar Bear ?
Cheers