This is a shot of the village church which we camped in back of because it was cooler and had less mesquitos. What a view.

Look there is downhill on Wright pass. Yey.

This is what the tundra looks close to the Artic Circle.

Several places we found these signs. The road is widened and made into an air strip landing.

This sign has a new meaning of share the road.

Here is we are camping in back of the church at Tsiigehtchic which over looks the great Mckenzie River. Little Anthony, one of the kids in the village joins us for several meals. The Gw'chin, the local aboriginal people, have lived here for as long as anyone can remember, came here to hunt and fish and then moved on with the season. Now it is a village of perhaps 200 people who live here year round.

Anthony dad, Russel, helps run the ferry which you can see in the far distance. This one just one of the three ferry crossing we have used so far. A bridge can not be built here because of the freezing and thawing of the river is too mighty it has knocked down bridges that have been built before.

I guess Nancy face says it all. "Yuck! I can't ride is this stuff. Actually I can't even walk in this mud" We could only walk a few yards before we had to polk out the mud from around the wheels and gears. Amazingly everything still worked after we got out of this slop. But is all part of the adventure. We had to have one war story.
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This is near Tombstone where the river is still frozen. This picture only shows a small bit of how cold and blue the ice on the river was. The Tombstone Mountain Territory Park are unglaciated and therefore are very smooth and round and looks a bit like Ireland.

The Arctic Circle is at 66 degrees, 33 minutes north latitude, and it's the place where at least on the summer solstice (June 21) the sun doesn't drop below the horizon for 24 hours. We still haven't seen real night even though we're now quite a bit south of the Circle.

The 24-hour day (and near-24-hour-day) that we've had is amazing. It's really light all the time. We have not used our camping headlights and won't for some time yet. We did bring blindfolds for sleeping at night and they've been fantastic.

Despite the 24-hour day, there is still a cycle to things. It cools off quite a bit at night, and warms up in the day. The insects know about the cycle and function quite adequately.