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Anyone been to Alert or Cambridge Bay or any of the far north settlements?
What's the farthest north everyone's been?
Me, the farthest north I've been to Iqaluit in the summer; it wasn't bad actually; I liked it :P
Farthest north is Inuvik, though only for a couple of days.
Spent a couple of years working out of Hay River, on the south side of Great Slave Lake. Coming from the prairies, I thought I knew all about cold winter winds, but the wind coming across that lake was something else entirely.
Some of the most hauntingly beautiful country I've ever seen, though.
I've been down the Alcan, so the furthest north I've been in Canada was by definition where the highway crosses the border north of Beaver Creek. Wish we'd had time to go up to Dawson.
Interesting border crossing. On every other crossing, your distance into Canada was measured in meters before you had to stop and pass Customs. This border had nothing but three signs. One welcomed you to Canada and to the Yukon Territory. One advised you that driving with headlights on at all hours was the law in the Yukon. A third said CUSTOMS CANADA 27 KM -- ALL VISITORS MUST REPORT. Then I looked around at the ocean of muskeg and realized why there was not a very big smuggling trade here at this unwatched frontier.
Customs officer was pretty friendly (but this was 1996). One guy in one small cinderblock shack. Since we had my future wife's worldly goods piled Beverly Hillbillies-style in her pickup, I had researched Canadian law and learned what we could not bring, and (except for one stupid omission that would have sent me to pay serious penalties but I didn't think about) we were in compliance. The law said you had to have a manifest of all containers and their contents. I insisted that Deb prepare this as she packed, numbering the boxes, and she had done it. We had three copies ready. I really, really didn't want the load ripped apart, and I figured if he asked for the manifest--as he had every right to do--he might be so surprised we'd actually looked up the law that he'd decided we were not the droids he wanted. He didn't even ask. After asking about our citizenships and destination, he smiled, said, "It's the only way to get there eh. Have a safe trip."
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