Crossing the Arctic Circle in 2003


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March 21st 2015
Published: March 21st 2015
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My VW camper, the Blue Amigo, had been oiled, lubed, scrubbed clean and packed. I had had a new windshield installed which had been cracked by rocks tossed up from careening lumber trucks heading southward through BC on my last visit up to the Northwest Territories several years earlier. Probably would be cracked again before I returned home. I was keyed to having an adventure up in Canada’s nor... Read Full Entry



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Eagle Plains Campground, prototype Hummer 2003
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road doubles as a landing strip
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crossing the Arctic Circle 66º 33' N for the third time
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wild flowers
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inuksuk, Inuit caribou trail markers
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low clouds over the tundra
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driving on black shale
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incredible landscapes
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crossing from the Yukon into the Northwest Territories
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Peel River crossing
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crossing the Peel River
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Fort McPherson
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Fort McPherson tent company
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where the Lost Patrol rests in peace
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Fort McPherson cemetery
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Fort McPherson cemetery
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crossing the MacKenzie River
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Tsiigehtchic or Arctic Red River at the junction of the Mackenzie River and the Arctic River
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entering Inuvik



21st March 2015

too bad that it had to end
but it did

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