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Flight from Vancouver (Friday, March 29) to Whitehorse and back (Monday, April 8th) is CAD$465.06 (air Canada or Air North) if you book now.
Regarding the moon, according to my trip plan, we will enter the Arctic Circle on the 3rd day. It will not be full moon and this year will be the peak of northern lights anyway so wish us good luck! Please see attached picture for moon calculation.
Temperature will be -25 to -9, better than I thought. It will be piece of cake for people from Eastern Canada 
Day one, Mar 29th, from Vancouver (9:10am) to Whitehorse (11:34am), or we can meet you at Whitehorse if you come from other places. After Shopping and lunch, we will start our trip from Klondike Hwy all the way to Dawson City, distance 532.4km, and estimate time 8 hours at least. We will be pretty tired the first day. (but it worth it! )
Hotel: Downtown Hotel Box 780, Dawson City TEL：1.867.993.5346
Day 2, Mar 30th, morning call at 8:30am, Percy Dewolfe Memorial Mail Race 2013，
Race starts at 10am in front of the old post office in Dawson City and follows the Yukon River to Eagle, Alaska and back, to commemorate the legendary life of mail carrier, Percy De Wolfe- Voted as the Unheralded Yukon Hero in 2012 (North of Ordinary magazine).
It’s optional, or you can have your beauty sleep until noon and ready for our next trip to Eagle Plain.
Distance 408km, estimate 9.5 hours. We’ll stop often to take in the beautiful landscape and to take pictures. However, the low temperatures and a nasty wind may hamper our enthusiasm to stay out for very long. We drive past the Tombstone Mountains, a vast treeless plateau and cross two mountain passes before we reach the vast Eagle Plains Plateau. The hotel at Eagle Plains is the only place along the Dempster Highway to eat, sleep and fuel up (420 kms / 265 miles). Do not expect a five star resort, but a functional and clean truck stop where we’ll spend the night with truckers and road maintenance people.
Hotel: Eagle Plains Hotel TEL：1.867.993.2453
Day 3, Mar31st, the hardest day for driving, finger crossed.
Distance 366km, about 9 hours drive. Just north of Eagle Plains we'll cross the Arctic Circle. From this monument we’ll enjoy a great view of the Richardson Mountains and the road in the distance. Soon after we’ll drive over the last mountain pass and cross the border to the Northwest Territories. We now descend into the wide valley of the mighty Peel and Mackenzie Rivers. Here we make our first contact with ice roads as we cross both frozen rivers. In the small First Nation village of Fort McPherson we'll break to visit the cemetery where the members of The Lost Patrol rest. We then continue to Arctic Red River, another small settlement and the crossing of the much wider Mackenzie River, in less than two hours we’ll arrive in Inuvik
Hotel: THE ARCTIC CHALET Box 1099 25 Carn Street Inuvik TEL：1.800.685.9417
Day 4, April 1st, distance 0km (enjoy)
Northern lights, Dog sledding, snowmobile and local food (if we can get any)
Hotel: THE ARCTIC CHALET Box 1099 25 Carn Street Inuvik TEL：1.800.685.9417
Day 5，April 2nd, This day will be the highlight of the trip: After breakfast we'll drive onto the ice of the Mackenzie River and head north towards the delta and the frozen Beaufort Sea. You’ll be amazed about the width of the road (up to 100 m / 300 ft wide) in some places and the thickness of the ice (up to 1.5 m / 5 ft). We’ll drive past remote cabins, frozen-in tug boats and cut-offs to exploration camps. After 180 kms / 110 miles we'll finally reach firm ground at Tuktoyaktuk, a small Inuit (Eskimo) town of 1100 people. This is the northernmost point (69° 26’) on this tour and we’ll spend some time exploring the area. By mid-afternoon we'll return to Inuvik or we can stay there overnight
Hotel: Hotel Tuk
Tuktoyaktuk, NWT
Tel. (867) 977-2381
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Pingo Park Lodge
Tuktoyaktuk, NWT
Tel. (867) 977-2155
http://www.tuk.ca/
Day 6, April 3rd, we drive another ice road to the small Inuit settlement of Aklavik on the other side of the McKenzie Delta (120kms / 75 miles). This route follows more the meandering channels offering a different view of the huge Delta. In Aklavik we will enjoy a hot chocolate in the local store before we turn around. We will arrive back in Inuvik early afternoon.
Day 7, April 4th, Inuvik back to Dawson, distance 774km.
Hotel: Klondike River Lodge Ltd, Dempster Corner, Dawson, YT Y0B 1G0 Tel: (867) 993-6892
Day 8, April 5th, Dawson City—Whitehorse, hot spring at TAKHINI HOT SPRING,
Hotel: km 10 Takhini Hotsprings Rd, Whitehorse, YT Y1A 7A2 Tel: (867) 456-8000
Day 9, April 6th, Ice wall, Shipyards Park, shopping, log skyscrapers, Yukon Beringia Interpretive centre.
Day 10, April 7th ALASKA HIGHWAY to HAINES JUNCTION, KLUANE NATIONGAL PARK and Pine lake.
Day 11, April 8th, home sweet home. |
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