More Tuk

After our prior blog post from Tuk, Bill took the final video in our riveting series called “is the sun gonna set?”

Spoiler: not really

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.

It was a scramble to get down here from the road but it was worth it!

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.

Hopefully this is how we’ll remember the Inuvik-to-Tuktoyaktuk Highway

When we got to Inuvik, our totals were:

1,653 miles pedaled

74,241 feet climbed

Mosquitoes repelled by thermacell: most of ‘em