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Marokiii t1_irdt0kh wrote

Reply to comment by ColinTheMonster in Autumn in the north is hard to beat. Northwest Territories, Canada [OC] [1080x1602] by TritonTheDark

Go to whitehorse. Yellowknife is pretty boring. Also whitehorse has kluane national park which is pretty amazing itself.

I just got back from an alaska, yukon, nwt roadtrip starting from Vancouver. 2 months living out of my tacoma camper, 7 national parks, probably 15+ territorial/state/provincial parks, 2 territorial capitals, 1 state capital, taking the Dempster to the arctic ocean, walked under 3 glaciers, saw the aurora borealis, and it cost me just $9k.

Edit: $9000 Canadian or about $6500USD.

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ColinTheMonster t1_ire2mjm wrote

Whitehorse does seem cool. For YK I'm considering going to Dawson city though.

I'd love a trip like that, but I figure it would be very difficult to get that time off. How do you have that much time?

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Marokiii t1_irexsdr wrote

im a welder, so theres always work for our trade and right now not enough workers. i gave my boss about 8 months notice for this trip and told him its my bucket list trip and it has to happen now and if they cant approve my time off with that much notice than ill just quit and go anyways.

i now have 6 months until i leave again at the beginning of april for the rest of Canada. 6 month long roadtrip hitting all the remaining provinces doing every national park you can get to by road and every capital city.

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TritonTheDark OP t1_irf64xv wrote

Agreed. Yellowknife is fun for a short visit in winter but ultimately you're going to run out of things to do there pretty quickly.

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buffalo_Fart t1_irdy3tk wrote

I was up there this summer as well. I didn't do as much as you but I really enjoyed the space between Whitehorse up to Destruction Bay. The Skagway and Hanes drives were pretty. The Dempster was intense, took me 9 days to do the whole run and I ran into vehicle trouble the last day, go figure but it got sorted out ($$$). I came in around 5K USD for the 78 days I was up there.

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Marokiii t1_irdynn2 wrote

i wish i had taken another month off of work, the trip at points felt rushed and i had to skip out on a few things that i now wish i hadnt. i changed 5 peoples flats, so thats what i attribute my good luck of not having a single flat and not a single chip in my windshield the entire time. i bombed up the dempster, 3 days from tombstone up to Tuk and back.

i need to go back for nahanni NP, and i want to kayak out to lake clark and katmai NPs from Homer, AK.

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buffalo_Fart t1_irfniwj wrote

Nice. Well there's always next time. It's tricky up there. The distances are vast and 300 miles is just a long afternoon. With another 300 tomorrow. I never made it to Homer unfortunately. I got to mainland Alaska too late and it was forcasted for 10 straight days of rain. I got as far as Hope then turned back. Everything in my van was damp and I didn't want mold. 3 window cracks and a broken radiator fan. So I paid some but out of all the high north drives I've done this was the first time anything happened. If I went back I would spend all of my time between Whitehorse, Haines and Destruction Bay. Stunning scenery, food/gas close enough, and easy camping.

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