Sunday, August 10, 2014

The Dempster Highway - Part 1 - first 4 days

Sunshine for the beginning of the Dempster Highway, both of us here with
Greg and Eve from Columbus and Henk and Louise.
The six of us stuck pretty close together on the Dempster

Ursula - the sunshine now gone...

...and later some rain, Rae uncharacteristically wearing his raincoat.

The second day on the Dempster we enjoyed some great scenery and saw
a little blue sky though not much sunshine.


Rain never seemed to be far away

Some sunshine and spectacular scenery for the start of day three on the Dempster




Our day three camp - sunny right now but we also had some fairly heavy rain
showers during the evening.

Lots of small very beautiful plants clinging to life here.

One o'clock in the morning, sun just set...

The next morning in camp, damp, cold, not much visibility...

...and no better on the road so we went the support vehicle following behind to protect
from overtaking vehicles. A very slow 15 km before we were clear of the fog. A
lot of mud on the roads that day, dirty bikes and people by the end of a long day.
Fortunately, we had showers at Eagle Plain that night.




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