{"id":3768,"date":"2014-08-11T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T10:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2014-08-03T22:48:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T02:48:29","slug":"dalton-highway-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/dalton-highway-2\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Dalton Highway (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

One continued ascent of Vivalavida to \u00ab\u00a0far North\u00a0\u00bb … The Brooke Range crossed, there is only a great plain that slopes gently toward the north to the Beaufort Sea. The more I go North and the more I can feel that winter isn’t gone since long ago…
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\n1. Tundra flowers…
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\n2. … out of sight…
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\n3. Although it doesn’t look on the picture, the road is really rough. Despite its large Wheel traval, VLV didn’t drove a high speed average.
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\n4. I meet from time to time a truck. The windshield ofVLV remembers it with a new large stone impact. It’s gonna be time to replace it once back from Alaska…
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\n5. Colors of the tundra are constantly changing.
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\n6. Water is everywhere, everything is marsh … I imagine how difficult it was for explorers of these regions to progress on such land.
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\n7. This tundra is summer areas for caribous that migrate South during the winter, looking for less snowed areas to find lichens which are their menu.
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\n8. A long time before seeing it, the dust announces the arrival of a vehicle!
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\n9. Far North, a pingo. This hill is created by a \u00ab\u00a0ice bubble\u00a0\u00bb that has developed in the tundra, pushing it upwards.
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\n10. I have the chance to see the biggest herbivore of the tundra: a group of muskoxen.
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\n11. What a big animal! I’m not going to scratch his ear… \ud83d\ude09
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\n12. A caribou mother and is calf of the year.
\nQuizz : que veut dire faire la cleupette ? Indice : \u00e7a vient du Jura neuch\u00e2telois… Et Pum-Tac, t’as pas le droit de jouer !! \ud83d\ude00
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\n13. My bivouac announces the return of the rain. To try to show you the invasion of mosquitoes in this area: I opened this window for less than 15 seconds! Here, there are five species of these bloodsuckers, with the big tiger mosquito…
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\n14. Low clouds in the morning, in the rain.
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\n15. While VLV took the road heading South again, clouds are gorgious and impressive.
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\n16. What an ambiance!
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\n17. I think I’m in love with this tundra! \ud83d\ude00
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\n18. VLV is already quite muddy!
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\n19. Rain starts again…
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\n20. Higher in the Brooke Range, the sun makes short appearances.
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\n21. Difficult to show you how VLV was dirty!
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\nTo be continued soon… \ud83d\ude09
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