On the fifth day we started our return trip.
Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk
On the fourth day we reached Inuvik, where we stopped at the Western Artic Regional Visitor Center.
Dempster and Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highways
We spent one week travelling Dempster and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highways.
Together those roads cover 540 miles to the Artic Ocean. The round trip is a little short of 1,200 miles crossing across Yukon and the Northwest Territories.
Both are mostly unpaved with a mix of gravel sections, dirt sections and some sections covered with calcium chloride.
It is a stressful drive filled with potholes, washboards, freeze weaves and other difficulties. Finding the proper groove and speed over the washboards is the most challenging part. Going too slow is terrible, going faster helps but the extra speed makes it difficult sometimes to avoid potholes and specially the freeze weaves.
