Wild Salmon Cycle
Cycling the Dempster Highway, NWT — Up the Mountains onto the Tundra.
Stage 1 of The Wild Salmon Cycle
The Wild Salmon Cycle: Riding 10,000 km through the historic range of Pacific Salmon in North America.
This is part of a series of stories I am sharing based on my journals from a 10,000 km bicycle trip I undertook a few years back. Each story is linked to the previous one in the series.
The previous ones are at the bottom of this one.
Day 2
No animals managed to reach my food bag. I tried to hang my food on a rope between two spindly muskeg swamp spruce trees. Both little trees actually sagged closer together and my food bag is only about two feet from the ground. I cook oatmeal for breakfast, get everything packed up again and loaded on to the bike.
I start riding on a road a bit muddier from some rain overnight.
By noon I reach the Mackenzie River ferry crossing. I knew the river was big — but not this big! It’s one thing to see it from the air flying in and a totally different experience to ride up beside it.
