Aklavik for a quick visit

Went out to Aklavik, 2 Sundays ago, as soon as I got home from getting off of the plane, literally. Neighbor was working on getting a truck moved over from there to Inuvik and I offered to come along. It has been sitting at the airstrip for a while – i.e. months. We dug it out and changed a few flat tires and brought the battery back for charging. Took some pix down the runway and the strip buildings. We also stopped by one of the 3 cemeteries in town – the one that has the Mad Trapper’s grave site. His is right behind the sign.

The ice road to Aklavik is a bit more winding as it is transverse to the flow of the river, lots of back and forth as it connects up channels. All in all it takes about an hour and a half to get there. We saw some fresh moose tracks about half way along but no moose. After playing with the truck we toured a bit more down the channel to see how close the road gets to the mountains but drifting put an end to that pretty quickly so we visited with some of the health staff and had an impromptu party before heading back in the evening. Long day to go from Calgary to Edmonton to Yellowknife to Norman Wells to Inuvik to Aklavik then back to Inuvik, ha ha.

During the week after getting back I took a drive out to the future of Inuvik, or so some people think; the Inuvik Satellite Station Facility – which is forecasted to be home for up to 15 or so radio dish receivers / relays in the next 10 years. The reason for this is strangle enough the US patriot Act that prohibits foreign nationals from having such facilities on American soil. http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/earth-sciences/geomatics/satellite-imagery-air-photos/satellite-facilities/ISSF/10953