{"id":238,"date":"2024-07-20T02:33:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T02:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/?p=238"},"modified":"2024-07-20T03:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T03:19:26","slug":"the-arctic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/uncategorized\/the-arctic-ocean\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arctic Ocean!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We rode our bikes to the Arctic Friggin\u2019 Ocean! It took a lot more effort to get to Tuktoyaktuk than expected, but we\u2019re here!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of us is better at showing enthusiasm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Some people ride the 95 miles from Inuvik to Tuk in one day. We couldn\u2019t make it, but we attribute it not to a lack of toughness, but instead fervently believe that it was extra windy yesterday and the gravel was deeper than normal. Still, we made it 75 miles. Then we were tired. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The landscape became filled with ponds and lakes <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Inuvik to Tuk Highway has almost no pullouts or camping spots but we stumbled upon a gravel lot where locals park snowmobiles in preparation for winter. It was perfect timing too because we were really tired and needed to stop. We weren\u2019t really sure about putting our tent on the delicate tundra, both because we didn\u2019t want to hurt the plants and we didn\u2019t want to wake up in a swampy bog. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Midnight Sun (technically 1am Sun) over our impromptu campsite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We also started seeing pingos! These cool landforms are made when liquid water gets trapped under the permafrost, then expands as it freezes. (This explanation is over-simplified, Parks Canada has more info<\/a>). The pingos up here are quite enormous!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our first pingo sighting!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Slightly closer. Ibyuk Pingo is 16 stories tall!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Tonight we\u2019re camping about 10 feet from the ocean!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That\u2019s it for now, it\u2019s time for us to nijiihaih:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stop signs in Inuvik also are in Gwich\u2019in and Inuvialuktun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Updated Stats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1,558 Miles pedaled<\/p>\n\n\n\n

70,354 feet climbed <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthest north: 69.4544\u00b0 N<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up next: riding back south!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We rode our bikes to the Arctic Friggin\u2019 Ocean! It took a lot more effort to get to Tuktoyaktuk than expected, but we\u2019re here! Some people ride the 95 miles from Inuvik to Tuk in one day. We couldn\u2019t make it, but we attribute it not to a lack of toughness, but instead fervently believe […]<\/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-238","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\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}