{"id":203,"date":"2024-07-12T01:31:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T01:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/uncategorized\/dempster-highway-part-1\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T01:43:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T01:43:38","slug":"dempster-highway-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/uncategorized\/dempster-highway-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dempster Highway (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We are about halfway up the Dempster Highway on our jaunt up to the Arctic Ocean. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We started in the striking Tombstone Mountains. Lots of climbing among jagged peaks hidden by clouds. (not a lot of pics on our phones, but there\u2019s drone video below and DSLR photos will be available a long time from now when we\u2019re home)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dempster is VERY <\/em><\/strong>remote. It\u2019s a pretty rugged gravel road and the surface seems to change all the time. Just when we get used to a smooth rolling section, it switches to washboard or deep gravel. But it\u2019s all been rideable and we\u2019re loving (almost) every minute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A few adventures of note: we camped near Engineer Creek. We knew the water was undrinkable due to iron leaching from permafrost (thanks global warming!). But we weren\u2019t sure how to know when the water would be undrinkable. We shouldn\u2019t have worried. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Engineer Creek. Yum. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What was fascinating was when Bill went down to the Ogilvie River to filter water, he could see where it mixed with Engineer Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bill chose to filter upriver before<\/em> the river joined the creek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Also at Engineer Creek Campground a trail angel went exceptionally above and beyond and brought us a bunch of treats including a fantastic feast for Giselle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steak, shrimp, baked potatoes, broccoli casserole, and so much more!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Drivers have been so generous and helpful, offering sodas and water as we slogged up hills. We must be quite a spectacle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now we\u2019re camping at Eagle Plains. We had a box sent ahead and it arrived safely. Now we\u2019re having a great dinner!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course, we took drone footage when we had battery power, when it wasn\u2019t raining, when it wasn\u2019t too windy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dempster Highway Pt 1 video<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trip so far:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1219 miles pedaled<\/p>\n\n\n\n

56,500 feet climbed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irreparable bike malfunctions: zero<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are about halfway up the Dempster Highway on our jaunt up to the Arctic Ocean. We started in the striking Tombstone Mountains. Lots of climbing among jagged peaks hidden by clouds. (not a lot of pics on our phones, but there\u2019s drone video below and DSLR photos will be available a long time from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}