Fall in the arctic - Brad walking on the alpine tundra
Heather with a (prob. tourist built) Inunnguaq.
Heather the water sprite gets a closer look at an (cold!) alpine stream.
Brad and Heather usually try to get one fall trip in. Fall is a very short season up here! Last year we attempted the Haul road and made it up to Wiseman, Alaska. The road up that way is... a difficult one. So this year we decided to go up the furthestmost Canadian road, which ends at the town of Inuvik, pronounced In-new-vik.
The colors were beautiful! It is a gorgeous trip, and the road is pretty well up-kept. Everyone was very nice and we had a great time.
The stone structure (above with Heather and below with Brad) is an Inunnguaq. An inunnguaq is roughly the shape of a human and according to people in Inuvik, they are used for trail markers (pointing the way) and were used in the past to herd caribou for hunting (to caribou they look enough like a human to avoid).
Natural "pollution" - one stream, heavy in iron (red) met another stream heavy in sulfur (greenish).
Brad with the Inunnguaq.
Two ravens (likely a mated pair) sunning on the tundra.
Along this road there are three ferries - this one uses a cable to pull itself across the river.
This is where two rivers meet, so this ferry goes to three sides.
While on the ferry, I saw two juvenile bald eagles and one adult.
Here is the adult bald eagle coming in for a landing... maybe on one of the pesky ravens =)
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