Vancouver Rains: Dempster Highway August 10th-14th

Dempester Highway...what is so special about this road? Well to start off, it is the only highway that I have driven on this trip that is entirely made up of dirt road, mud road, and gravel road. When I say gravel, it's not the nice little pebble stones you see occasionally in city road constructions. I am talking about rocks the size of your fist kind of gravel!

The highway is about 760km long and has only one gas station and one accommodation site on the way (at Eagle Plain). It was built under Prime Minister Diefenbaker as an initiative to explore the North. At that time, speculation of oil and mineral deposits prompted the government to construct that highway.

Along this highway, the landscape is truly amazing. It is something to be experienced and seen with one's own eyes. There are very few vehicles that traverse the highway, especially in the northern stretch of Eagle Plain. Therefore it is just you, the road, and whatever animals that may be in the tundra. It is a whole other world on this highway.

Despite ruining all ridges and threads on my tires (it is smooth as skate rink ice now) and other damages sustained while driving, I consider it the climax of my trip north if not the entire trip. I would recommend anyone to drive that road- just bring money, gas, food, and spare tire, and sleeping bag!

Grizzly bear...this is one out of six that I saw on that day...

Amazing NorthWest Territory landscape

(the first two pictures are taken at a "lake." The quotation marks exist because this is actually part of a construction site or at least very close to one.