Another Route to the Arctic Ocean

[RossKean]

Maybe not ideal for the FJR but you can get there from here (now). Previously, it was only via an ice road in the winter.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/first-permanent-road-to-arctic-coast-to-open/ar-BBESzI0?li=AAggNb9&ocid=HPCDHP

 

[Mr_Canoehead]

Nice to see the government investing in the north. We really need an all-weather road to Churchill - the railway isn't re-opening any time soon. https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/sunday-deadline-looms-to-reopen-railway-to-churchill/article36901338/

 

[bigjohnsd]

Dawson City to Inuvik was great last year on my KLR. We tried to ride the new road to Tuk, but they wouldn't let us, not safe they said. We flew to Tuk, the locals have been using the upper part of the road for a year. Maybe next time. Definitely not a road for an FJR even with 50/50 tires.

 

[Uncle Hud]

"all weather gravel road"

Is there a "sunny days only" type of gravel road?

 

[Mr_Canoehead]

I remember watching a WWII documentary with Peter Ustinov as the narrator. He said Russia had two seasons, winter and "the season of bad roads". Northern Canada is the same.

 

[bigjohnsd]

The Dempster is one of those "All Weather" gravel roads. Then one of the tribes needs cash and "Maintains" the road by dumping six inches of fresh gravel on it during an early June rain. Tough sledding on the KLR with 50/50 tires, nigh on impossible on an FJR with any tire.

 

[Uncle Hud]

Sooooo .... all weather means a 4--inch layer of fist-sized gravel that keeps mud off the road "surface"? The Forest Service does that occasionally around here. It isn't easy to walk on, either.

 

[bigjohnsd]

Hud, it wasn't fist sized, more acorn sized and about half dirt, the rest was mud, slicker than two eels Ph ()#@ing in a,bucket of snot!

Two and a half days later it wss hard and dry and comfortable at 60 mph.

 

[escapefjrtist]

<snip> Two and a half days later it wss hard and dry and comfortable at 60 mph.

Timing is everything...thinking most of these big trips to the way-north require [luck] and patience with mother nature!

--G