45 Days and nearly 800 km on the Tundra

Thanks heaps to the pilots and camps that are going to make this trip possible: Hoarfrost River Huskies' pilot Dave Olesen, Aylmer Lake Lodge, Ahmic Air in Yellowknife, and the Tundra Ecosystem Research Station operated by Environment and Natural Resources of the Government of the Northwest Territories. Thank you, thank you!

The flight from Yellowknife to my starting point just west of Dubawnt Lake, near the Nunavut / NWT border, will be with Hoarfrost River Huskies. They have the perfect plane for a solo hiker! I will fly out at the end of July. I'll have three food drops: one where I cross the Thelon River, a second at Aylmer Lake Lodge, and a third at the Tundra Ecosystem Research Station. I plan to take 45 days, which means flying out around the 12th of September. Hooray! With most logistics already nailed down, I can focus on gear items, food preparation, and dreaming.

We are so lucky here in the NWT to have such an esker, mostly undisturbed. Elsewhere, in more populated zones of Canada and the USA, eskers are turned into highways or used for aggregate. North of 60 they provide wolf, fox and bear dens, migration corridors for caribou, hunting platforms for aboriginal people, and landmarks for pilots.