Arctic Circle

Sandi: We made it to the arctic circle yesterday at about 3PM Pacific Time. We camped in a campground where the mosquito population around our tent probably out numbered the total population in the Yukon Territory. A trip up to Inuvik, Northwest Territory today we saw a grizzly bear and mother moose and her calf and a porcupine. The Grizzly was something! He was eating low bush cranberries. We believe he also visited our campground as we found huge paw prints around the bear proof garbage containers. We were camping and I have to admit that this scared me just a bit. Our faithful dog, Molli, barked at the bear, who was about 100 yards away from us. We got great pictures and they will appear on the blog soon.
The Arctic Tundra suprised me by having lots more trees than I expected. A much more complex vegetation structure in areas. I was not surprised by the cold. The sun was, indeed up ALL night. We will be heading to a place called Jax Campground to a viewing tower to see across to the Arctic Ocean (?) well the delta that leads into this ocean.
Interesting fact, we have gone over several continental divides. The one I've never been over before was the divide that has all water in the mountains and plains going into the Arctic Ocean.


Talk about a small world. As we are here working in the hotel in Inuvik, Northwest Territory...4600 miles from New Mexico...we are watching the Calgary News Channel. One of the stories that is on the news is about the Spaceport in Sierra County New Mexico..30 miles from our home.