This part of the Trans Canada Trail is very close to my hotel (http://maps.tctrail.ca/). It surrounds Boot Lake and also has views of the Mackenzie River. I am surprised at all the wildflowers. It has also been so warm here, and when I talk to the locals they say that the summer has been very cold but this week was the first week to have warm weather. Lucky me!
These are the tall skinny trees that are seen everywhere here. Flying into Inuvik there are forests of these trees that go on for miles. To me they look like something out of a Dr. Suess book.
Inuvik Cemetery
Stumbling upon this was quite a surprise. I spent a lot of time exploring the cemetery because I was so interested in it. Instead of walking past many sites belonging to people who have lived a long life, I was walking past so many young deaths. Babies, children, teenagers, and young adults. I am still trying to understand the deaths and asking questions when I get the opportunity. Looks like a lot of people drown in the river or there are a lot of problems here with mental disease, alcoholism, and drug abuse. I notice in the grocery store how sad the very young girls that work there seem to be. I can't seem to figure it out yet and I want to simply ask one of them why they look so sad, but I don't seem to have it in me. This is their place and I am a visitor. I am enjoying this opportunity to be apart of such a different kind of place.
Those trees are very Dr. Seussish. They remind me of some cartoon, majestic forest the way they are tall and curvy.
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I'm thinking of doing a similar trip - Edmonton to Inuvik - and then heading out into the Beauford River Delta up to the Arctic ocean. I see there is a Trans Canada Trail Water Route that goes all the way up there - how far did the Jimmy Adams Peace trail take you?
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