Driving North on the Dempster Highway in the Yukon Territory, Part I

First, we'll get fuel & propane.

We probably have enough
propane to last us until
Whitehorse, but we don't pass
up services on this trip.

We are at Kilometer 0

of the Dempster Highway.

The Dempster Highway starts at the North Klondike Highway and ends at Inuvik.  Construction started in 1959 and was finished in 1979.  It is an unpaved road.  Maintenance includes bringing in new gravel and regrading the road. 

At first, I thought this was a
sign showing the risk of fire.

This shows the Porcupine Caribou
Herd is at 115,000.






Hunters can shoot male caribou.  It is expected that hunters take only what they need and report the number taken.

This bridge is one lane,

with a wooden deck.

Eric is driving about 25
miles per hour.

There's plenty of room for us

& the truck.

Yes, we are stopped, waiting

for the truck to pass.

Tombstone Territorial Park
covers miles & miles of the
southern Dempster Highway.

The Tombstone Interpretive

Center

For most of our drive along the Dempster Highway, Eric and I are in Beringia.  During the last Ice Age, this large area was not covered in ice.  I look forward to taking pictures in this unique geologic area.

I love taking pictures of
the rugged mountains.

Just 261 kilometers to

Eagle Lodge 

We decided that 737 kilometers/458 miles, one way, of unpaved road is too much unpaved road for us.

The mountains in the distance
look like they've been drawn
with pastel chalks.

It's so beautiful here. 

It looks like the rocky
protrusion is the beginning
of a new mountain.

Engineer Creek Campground

is one of ten campgrounds

along the Dempster Highway.

 

The Ogilvie River

 A motorcyclist

waves at us. 

These rock towers, or tors, are
the result of frost shattering.

Water settles into the cracks,

freezes & expands, forcing

the rocks apart until it

falls down the slope.

Tors occur in unglaciated areas.