Yukon Rambles with Robin and Ruby: Crossing The Mackenzie River enroute from Fort McPherson to Inuvik, Northwest Territories, June 16, 2019.

Episode 19E22

Robin is a 2015 T@B travel trailer. Ruby is a 2019 Subaru Outback.

In this episode of Rambles with Robin and Ruby, we cross the mighty Mackenzie River, hike an area where the surface of the Earth started to split apart, and reached Inuvik, Northwest Territories. The weather was fabulous. The sky was blue. The temperature reached a balmy 17C, or 62 F, in Inuvik. And we continued to enjoy the spectacular midnight Sun.

Geological and other natural curiosities include: a) tundra; b) Boreal forest; c) Mackenzie River; d) Campbell Lake reversing delta; e) Peel Plain; f) Peel River; g) Laurentide ice sheet; h) last ice age; i) Deh-Cho Big River; j) Great Slave Lake; k) Arctic Ocean; l) Mackenzie River basin; m) Mackenzie River delta; n) Campbell uplift; o) Sitidgi Graben; p) wildflowers; q) Arctic Lupine (Lupinus arcticus); r) Pretty Jacob's-Ladder (Polemonium pulcherrimum); s) Narrowleaf Leopardbane (Arnica angustifolia); t) Raup's Indian-Paintbrush (Castilleja raupii); u) Dwarf Arctic Groundsel (Packera cymbalaria); v) Beautiful Sandwort (Sabulina rubella); w) Lapland Azalea (Rhododendron lapponicum); x) Entireleaf Mountain-Avens (Dryas integrifolia); y) Mountain Deathcamas (Anticlea elegans); z) Thallose liverwort, possibly Common Liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha); and aa) Tussock Cotton-grass (Eriophorum vaginatum).

Also mentioned are the following communities and geographic sites: a) Fort McPherson; b) Dempster Highway; c) Inuvik; d) Northwest Territories; e) Happy Valley Territorial Park; f) ; g) ; h) Mackenzie River ferry; i) Nitainlaii Territorial Park; j) Tuktoyaktuk; k) Tsiigehtchic; l) Khąįįląįį (Gwich’in name) - Rengleng River; m) Tithegeh Chi'vitail Territorial Park; n) igloo Church - Our Lady of Victory Church.

Andy Fyon

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