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Enjoy! Both are fabulous trips. I hope the Dempster is in better shape this year compared to 2023!

Very kind. Thank you. It is a special place.

Glad it was helpful! It is a place that very few people will visit, but that is very special and quite unique for many of those who visit.

The Dempster Highway is not for the faint of heart for many reasons. Gravel and can really damage the paint, windshields, and sand blast the underside of a vehicle and travel trailer. But, we have done it two and a half times without major issues LOL. But, there is always some damage.

Well, a little concern is health. But, there were 4 of us, we had lots of bear spray, and we made lots of noise :)

I did not see any fur bearing snakes, but they do sell fur coverd Ookpik owls. And I am certain you would have seen many changes! Thanks for commenting.

Issues mean different things to different people. On the 2023 trip, we lost the gas function for our 3-way fridge, lost our backup portable electric freezer - fridge, and sustained several rock chips on the windshield. BUT, the Dempster was in really poor condition in Yukon in 2023. It may be better in 2024. We had no towing issues. Best practice is to carry a full-sized spare tire for the tow vehicle and for the trailer. Good luck.

Well worth the extra time in Tuk. Thanks for the kind comment, Dave.

@davebeningfield: Always a pleasure. Enjoy if you get back. It is a very special place.

Exactly! That thinly layered rock is shale. It represents a small basin that lay off the west coast of ancestral North America, before the Rocky mountains started to form. Good eye!

@@rambleswithrobinandruby9422 Interesting, thanks!

It is certainly cool. More so when you look back at it LOL.

Windy but cool! The Hare Mountain foothill hike video will go up soon ;)

Very welcome. Those lakes are an interesting feature of the prairie landscape.

Very kind. It was a great experience for all.

Thanks for your comment and clearly we agree. I have been to Clinton Creek minesite in 2023 and also in 2019 looking for unusual plants growing on the serpentinite rock. Didn't find anything unusual but that too is an interesting trip. Also met the couple who bought the Clinton Creek townsite and live there!

That would certainly be unusual as pingos are typical of permafrost areas, found in the subarctic and arctic. I have not seen the geology in the Albany area, but could the dome-like shapes you see be volcanos are landforms created by erosion of the abundant volcanic rocks in the area? The confusing part of dome-shaped landforms are the many geological processes that can form them. You have tweeked my interest. Thanks.

The car top tent is "fixed" on the vehicle for the duration of our summer 2023 travels. We did not use it on this trip along the Nahanni Range Road. This trip was a (long) day trip.

Thank you for leaving a comment. Very kind.

The land that is rising the fastest lies along the southern shore of Hudson Bay. My my "back of envelope" calculations, it would be easy to see the new land exposed during the lifetime of human. There are more subtle clues about the rising land as well. I recall reading that some inlets and ports along the southern the bay are getting more shallow and that has/will affect shipping.

They certainly are. Maybe there will be a round two in summer 2024. But what about those grandparents! They were amazing too, yes?

Thanks for leaving your comment. There are so many features and destinations to visit and share. Personally, I am way behind schedule! Enjoy your 2024 summer travels.

Glad it hit the spot. And thanks for the toaster explanation! I am now a little more knowledgeable. They choose their sign well LOL.

I love that "are we there yet" as well. Many of us have been there!! Notwithstanding it is a long drive for most people regardless of age :) . As for the underwear, it shall remain a mystery LOL.

Very welcome. I can assure you that there are many times we stopped along that highway just to look...and we were never alone. Many others stopped and looked as well. Thanks for sharing your perspectives.

Thanks. Just sharing what I learned on the street. Always helpful to receive multiple sources. Thanks for sharing.

It is a special place, for sure. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

I consider this one of the amazing areas of Canada - although, there are many fabulous places in Canada. But this area is still stunning, offersgreat hikes, and is full of wildlife, despite being on the main access route along the Alaska Highway. Good for you to return when you can. Thanks for sharing with us.

The legacy of the last ice age continues to shape the land. Thanks for commenting.

THank you and welcome. That was quite a trip in 2019! 7,000 miles at least! We were also there in 2019. We may have passed each other LOL. It is a very different and beautiful world up there. Thanks for sharing your comments.

Thank you very much!

What great fun, Janet. Sadly, it was still a little early in spring when we passed through and the water was cold. We passed on the "float". Thanks for sharing your memory, Janet.

There is a pull-off beside the Alaska Highway suitable for big rigs. It is located within Muncho Lake Provincial Park, so it is not a place to dig around ;) . Also, the sediments in an alluvial fan are so poorly sorted, with boulders sitting beside sand-sized granins, that you don't typically get separation and concentration of heavy minerals. It is a lovely place to hike, though.

Best to manage expectations if you are headed to Forty Mile as a tourist in spring 2024. The ice breakup of spring 2023 was wicked and the Forty Mile townsite was decimated. Unless accompanied by a local First Nation person or a Yukon Government rep, all other visits to the town were discouraged during the summer of 2023. I don't know the present access conditions.

You raise an issue that is important to all Treaty people - and we are all Treaty people. Fort Selkirk was an important cultural hub for the Selkirk First Nation people. They, in collaboration with the Yukon government reps, and leading the restoration and maintenance of Fort Selkirk. Freda Alfred, the on site historical interpreter, is a member of Selkirk First Nation and she was very open to discussing the impacts of colonialization. I found Yukon, in general, was a very aware jurisdiction in regards to past colonialization history...more so than most other Canadian jurisdictions (although I should not generalize). Thank you for raising a topic that all Canadians need to be aware of as a reconcillation step.

Thanks for watching!

Teri-Lee Isaac, owner of Tutchone Tours, is a member of Selkirk First Nation and does run tours to Fort Selkirk. You can google her or her company to gain insight about her tours.

There are many road-side attractions across Canada. All have a story. There are websites devoted to this topic! I try to check them out LOL

You raise an important point that few would disagree with - that the Earth has gone through cycles. As a geologist, I spent a career looking at many of those cycles. What is different today is the rate of change that some cycles are experiencing today, like the rate of greenhouse gas increase in the atmosphere and temperature increase. The present rapid change in greenhouse gas emission began in the period 1750 to 1850 - with the start of the industrial revolution. But, there is much more evidence that points to human influence and that we are at or are approaching the limits of what the Earth can do to absorb those greenhouse gases. Humans have never experienced that rate of change that we are seeing today. We can see glaciers melting really quickly. The oceans are warming and expanding. Both of those are contributing today to rising sealevel. Permafrost is melting faster than experience by indigenous people. Animal and plant species are migrating north, where they have never been seen in the life-time of indigenous people (not geological time, by the way). There is a lot of land-related evidence that is consistent with the rapid increase of the temperature of the Earth's atmosphere. There is a large "bucket" of evidence all points to a very rapid change in the Earth's climate over the last 200 years. But, I do appreciate you taking the time to comment. Thank you.

Welcome. They are quite amazing and quite common in places.

Very kind. And appreciated. Thank you

You are very welcome. We are all learning. Thank you.

Dawson City is a very cool place. Enjoy!

@@rambleswithrobinandruby9422 Hello. We are having heavy snow today.😮😮😮🖐🖐

@@viktorponomarev well, winter is coming quickly. Enjoy.

@@rambleswithrobinandruby9422 наступила настоящая зима, ночью -26°

​@viktorponomarev how do you enjoy the Yukon this month? I will be there in April

Cool. It has a lot of really interesting natural landscapes! Where was your grandpa born in SK and where did he live in SK?

@@rambleswithrobinandruby9422 If I recall correctly he was born in Arcola, SK and then lived on the Davidson family farm in Chelan, SK until he left when he was 14 or 15. His youngest brother farmed the land until his death a few years ago. I do believe that his daughter and her husband are still living on the farm. I think Chelan has a population of about 50 ppl... My great grandma lived in Bjorkdale, SK and died in Tisdale. Lots of great memories.

@@kellydavidson61 we came close to Chelan in 2023, but passed about an hour south. Cool that you hold on to those memories!

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Thanks Wasyl. You are so kind. I appreciate that. Glad it resonated with you.

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@wasylbakowsky5199: That is an excellent point about the window size. Thanks for adding.

@UrDomb : glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.

1983! Wow. And in a school bus! That must have been an adventure of a lifetime. The Dempster Highway itself would have been an adventure. We stayed in the MacKenzie Hotel back in 2007 or 2008. It was hopping LOL

First time for me to see one. I confess, it is the strangest ground squirrel call I have heard. We looked around the tree tops for about 5 minutes before we found the source LOL.

That was my kids' favourite part 🤣❤

@@chelseanash9318 Cool! There will be more animals in future videos, but the kids will have to be patient until we "get there" lol.