Arctic Adventure Video: The Dempster Part 2
In the final video of the Arctic Adventure online video series, the OutDrive.ca team reaches Inuvik, NWT. A ride that has carried us from Vancouver, BC to our destination 200km north of the Arctic Circle. Watch for our upcoming feature download and DVD exploring the Dempster Highway in detail.
Arctic Adventure Video: The Dempster Part 1
The OutDrive.ca team has made it to the Dempster, Canada only all season highway to cross the Arctic Circle, on the second to last leg of the Arctic Adventure video series.
Arctic Adventure Video: Telegraph Creek
The road to Telegraph Creek is one of British Columbia’s greatest roads, jaw dropping scenery, a hint of danger and a uncertain future. To steal a phrase every visit is potentially a last chance to see this great destination. So the http://OutDrive.ca team takes a two day detour on our way to the Western Canadian Arctic.
Arctic Adventure Video: How Far North?
This episode the http://OneWheelDrive.net team encounters a bear, cow floating rain and oatmeal in their ride to Inuvik, NWT 200km north of the Arctic Circle.
Arctic Adventure Video: Something Fishy (Warning some Sushi Violence)
Fish beatings, idilic mornings, and dust? The OutDrive.ca team’s Arctic Adventure continues as they ride 12,000kms north to Inuvik, NWT.
Arctic Adventure Video: Smoke in the Air
Riding to the Inuvik, NWT (200kms north of the Arctic Circle), the OutDrive.ca team gets their first taste of dirt traveling from Soda Creek to Bob Tail Lake (just outside of Vanderhoof, BC). A route that requires a minor detour to avoid a forest fire
Arctic Adventure Video: Bugs in the System
This episode we’re dealing with some bugs as http://OutDrive.ca hit the road, riding from Vancouver, BC to Inuvik, NWT some 200kms North of the Arctic Circle.
Epilogue – Rush Hour
Crawling under the towering cables of Lion’s Gate Bridge, we’re rolling into Vancouver on the final leg of our return from the Arctic and our welcome is an automotive slap in the face. Traffic is ornery, pushy, and demonstrating the road selfishness we’ve not had to deal with for 10,000 kilometers. Mainly because for a major portion of that distance there was no traffic…
The Salmon Glacier
Stewart, B.C. – We are overlooking the Salmon Glacier, on a road that curls up the ridges overtop of the great flowing track of ice driven forward by its own weight. In the sun it dazzles the eye, gliding imperceptibly around a corner, with race stripes of medial moraine rock debris giving it black curves like a remnant alien roadway from the last ice age.
Valdez, AK – Everything for a Reason
“We’re going to get wet.” That’s pretty much Glenn’s end statement on the matter as we look down the Richardson Highway from Gakona and into a black wall of cloud veiling the mountains in the distance and Valdez, AK beyond.
Denali Highway – One Yurt, Hold the Testicles
Can you really go wrong with a morning that starts in a yurt? Especially if the evening before was 100% boiled goat testicle free and featured a nice red wine rather than fermented yak milk? The yurt at Carlos Creek Campground in Denali is a long ways from roughing it in Mongolia and is more Ikea does yurt…
Top of the World
Awestruck by views so broad, so expansive, that the landscape and sky can barely contain them, the Top of the World out of Dawson, YT is one of the few highways we’ve encountered that truly, fully and completely lives up to its name.
Dempster Resplendent
Is this even the same road? I know the sign fading into our rearview mirrors says “Welcome to Inuvik”, but the Dempster Highway is transformed. Four days ago the infamously challenging adventure highway tossed us around like Cerberus using three souls as chew toys, today what was once the Mud-Beast is now asleep in the sun.
Dempster Highway – The Mud-Beast Bares its Fangs
So you want to motorcycle the Dempster Highway to Inuvik, NWT? If you we’re smart you’d wait for a couple of nice dry days, but we never claimed to be smart. We head out onto the fabled road in the rain to experience its worst as we ride beyond the Arctic Circle…
Stark Places – The Dempster Highway
By the term “highway”, don’t confuse the Dempster with the paved varicosities that strangle our modern world. A product of its environment this is a filament of the south sent out like an infection, and the land does its best to fight it off.
Challenges
On a good day the road from Dease Lake to Telegraph Creek, BC is an ethereal dirt cavort through scenery composed of precipitous canyons sheered into lava by erosive rivers. Add one night of rain and it goes from being one the world’s greatest driveways to one of the most terrifying.
Off Course
We’re off course, and we don’t need a map or GPS to tell us so. We’re headed south-west rather than north-west thanks to a wrong turn off of the Blackwater Forest Service Road and onto Batnuni, above the sky is darkening and the sun diminished to a glowing red-orange ember. Below me the BMW F800GS [...]
Departures
With a personal riding history is littered with a disturbing pattern of rough departures, the OWD team heads north for the Arctic Circle, after a very slow start.
