Our Travel Blog
You may remember the dust of the Dempster Highway we hit travelling to the Arctic Ocean last summer. Like Alaskan mosquitoes, we thought there could never be dust like that again! Boy were we wrong! Meet the red dust of Utah! We spent the day traversing The Swell from the Little Grand Canyon down through Reds Canyon. When we arrived at the Hondoo Arch this is what we found. The next morning out came the weather stripping and Gorilla tape! So far, so good.
Once you travel the Dempster and arrive in Inuvik, you now have the option to travel another 100 miles on the new Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk Hwy to the Arctic Ocean. Of course, we had to go!
We awoke to a beautiful morning, a definite must for traveling this road, and adventured north. The road is still being ‘fine tuned’ so there are patches of mud where the permafrost is winning and sections that make your teeth rattle. The gravel trucks run non-stop and the locals see it as a new super highway.
Tuk until this year could only be reached by sea or air. The ITH (Inuvik Tuktoyaktuk Highway) across the permafrost north to Tuk connects it to the rest of the world. The small village could be a fishing village on the coast of Newfoundland, Maine, or Scotland where people are eeking out a living in a tough place.
We had Muskox burgers, stood in the Arctic Ocean(no swim), and met some nice people.
We had a beautiful day and an epic adventure!
