Travelling on the tundra north of Inuvik where the Inuvik-Tuk is supposed to be

Took a 134 km loop trip through the tundra the other day. I went out to Jimmy Lake, where the Reindeer herd winters, then headed west along part of the route that they use to move the herd over to Richards Island. Ostensibly I was looking for signs of the coming road – none at all, lol.

Conditions were really good for travel to I headed on onto open tundra and headed generally towards the Delta. Big open spaces so I did need to look at the GPS on occasion, at one point I was following a drainage that was leading north instead of west. Eventually I saw a low range of hills that I recognized as north of the Ikhil Gas plant and shortly thereafter saw the flare stack on the plant. I headed over to the plant then picked up the trail leading down Baker Creek and the ice road. Clear windless day, not many of those this year.

Stopped at Reindeer Station on the way back to Inuvik; they spruced up the place a bit for the 80th anniversary.

Mixed climbing / dry tooling by Campbell Lake near Inuvik NWT

Just some pix for a slide show I did for the Arctic Image Festival, during an unusually warm spell in Feb of 2015, of some of the mini routes I have on the crag I developed. As previously reported its a really decent limestone layer given that a lot of the outcrops around here are a bit chossy.

...and a link to an earlier post of a go pro video on the same day

http://inuvik2013.blogspot.ca/2015/03/climbing-by-inuvik-on-warm-weekend-in.html

Evening pix down by the boat launch in Inuvik March 2014 - sun pillars and Husky Lakes

A couple of old commercial boats are high and dry near the boat launch. One has trees growing through the deck plates. good sunset with a hint of a sun pillar.

Also was over by Husky Lakes, to check trail conditions. Trail from Jimmy Lake to Husky lake was rough and the lake surface was really rough, lots of old overflow by the shore as well, which was a bit odd. A traveler coming over from Tuktoyaktuk actually broke his toboggan tow arm on the lake ice. The wind scoured out the dock by Husky Lake revealing it covered in spray ice from the fall - looks like a plastic sheet is covering it.