After our prior blog post from Tuk, Bill took the final video in our riveting series called “is the sun gonna set?”
The next morning we started back to Inuvik. We made it about halfway and stayed at a fantastic little campsite nestled near one of the few bridges over running fresh water.

Then Bill finally stopped bellyaching about the horrific deep gravel and made peace with the idea that we would eventually persevere, and took some drone footage from this scenic and not all that heinous stretch of the road.
When we got to Inuvik, our totals were:
1,653 miles pedaled
74,241 feet climbed
Mosquitoes repelled by thermacell: most of ‘em