travel to yukon...
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2002 12:37 pm
Here's a message Gord asked to be posted for him...
Howdy guys. How's yer doohickey? 
I seem to have been unsubscribed to the KLR list somehow. No big
deal - I was going to unsubscribe anyway because I'm leaving at the
end of the week. But I just wanted to say see ya before heading off
to the Yukon for two months.
On Friday or Saturday I'll be taking the Icefields Parkway and then
the Cassiar to the Alaska Highway, then the Klondike highway to
Dawson City, and then the Dempster up to Inuvik. I'll grab a Cessna
to Tuktoyaktuk so I can go for a dip in the Arctic Ocean. I'll also
be doing some climbing/hiking a little south in the Richardson
Mountains.
Around mid-July I'm meeting up with some friends in Whitehorse who are
driving up from Calgary. (Hopefully they can bring my Dual Star side
racks if they're ready by then.) We're building a raft in
Whitehorse. It will have a sail, oars and even a stationary-bike-
powered paddlewheel to push it along over 65km-long Lake Laberge. The
rest of the way should be ok - with the possible exception of certain
places like Five Finger Rapids.
Around early August my friends are heading home, and I'm off to the
North Canol road. After Macmillan Pass it's abandoned, so there's
lots of river crossings that are pretty darn high - especially at the
beginning of the month. I wish I could go closer to Labor Day, but
the timing doesn't work for me. I need to bring extra gas for the
750-800km round trip. Extra cables, levers and tubes too, because if
something goes wrong out there and you can't fix it yourself you're
looking at a 200km walk...
After that I'm not sure where I'm headed. Either home or perhaps to
Vancouver Island and nearby Denman Island to visit my dad. I'll be
home around the end of August.
You can reach me at gordmounce@... if you'd like to be
included on the trip reports. They won't be anything especially
eloquent - just a few quick updates and some stories for friends and
family who worry when I do trips like this.
have fun
gord
I seem to have been unsubscribed to the KLR list somehow. No big
deal - I was going to unsubscribe anyway because I'm leaving at the
end of the week. But I just wanted to say see ya before heading off
to the Yukon for two months.
On Friday or Saturday I'll be taking the Icefields Parkway and then
the Cassiar to the Alaska Highway, then the Klondike highway to
Dawson City, and then the Dempster up to Inuvik. I'll grab a Cessna
to Tuktoyaktuk so I can go for a dip in the Arctic Ocean. I'll also
be doing some climbing/hiking a little south in the Richardson
Mountains.
Around mid-July I'm meeting up with some friends in Whitehorse who are
driving up from Calgary. (Hopefully they can bring my Dual Star side
racks if they're ready by then.) We're building a raft in
Whitehorse. It will have a sail, oars and even a stationary-bike-
powered paddlewheel to push it along over 65km-long Lake Laberge. The
rest of the way should be ok - with the possible exception of certain
places like Five Finger Rapids.
Around early August my friends are heading home, and I'm off to the
North Canol road. After Macmillan Pass it's abandoned, so there's
lots of river crossings that are pretty darn high - especially at the
beginning of the month. I wish I could go closer to Labor Day, but
the timing doesn't work for me. I need to bring extra gas for the
750-800km round trip. Extra cables, levers and tubes too, because if
something goes wrong out there and you can't fix it yourself you're
looking at a 200km walk...
After that I'm not sure where I'm headed. Either home or perhaps to
Vancouver Island and nearby Denman Island to visit my dad. I'll be
home around the end of August.
You can reach me at gordmounce@... if you'd like to be
included on the trip reports. They won't be anything especially
eloquent - just a few quick updates and some stories for friends and
family who worry when I do trips like this.
have fun
gord