My old friend Joe came up from Whitehorse with his four wheel drive truck and we took an amazing trip up the Dempster Highway to Tombstone: a provincial park on the road to the Arctic Ocean. It was spectacular spectacular. -28 with a brutal windchill, so we didn't spend a lot of time out of the truck, but we managed to get over the Continental Divide, so when we crossed over the Klondike watershed into the Blackstone watershed then all the water was flowing North to the Arctic.
The Viewpoint from Tombstone... major windchill but too beautiful not too appreciate..
The ice crystals gave us some amazing sun dogs on the road ahead and in a huge circle around the Sun ...
The glare from the snow was pretty out of control... Joe resorted to extreme measures to combat it for driving
It was about 4 hours from Dawson, so we had time to get up there and get back in time for Martinis at Bombay Peggy's and a quick game (sadly short...) of Roulette at Diamond Tooth Gerties... all in all a satisfying day! The song of the day will be an old Velvet Underground song jazzed up a little... I'll put it up this evening at www.myspace.com/bremnerduthie
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