Just some quick pix of the Northern Store in Tuktoyaktuk. It’s similar to the one in Cambridge Bay, smaller but nicer though. Chips were 2 dollars more than Inuvik and licorice was double the Inuvik price – perhaps a message there on social engineering? Strangely enough gas was $1.75 per litre which is cheaper than the Esso here at $1.77 – clearly the result of a fuel subsidy, or a gas war, ha ha. Funny to think as $1.75 as cheap gas.

Oh, and yes we did indeed end up going up the highest hydrolaccolith in Canada and the second highest in the world, Ibyuk Pingo, http://wikimapia.org/4380798/Ibyuk-Pingo in the Pingo National landmark. http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/docs/v-g/pingo/sec3/natcul1.aspx Research suggests that it is between 1000 and 1300 years old and is still growing at a rate of 2 cms per annum but only from the top half and up, the bottom being static. It’s 49m high and 300 metres across, officially. I was getting heights around 160 to 209 feet from the GPS which is using air pressure, and probably needs calibrating since its records Inuvik at a negative elevation.