Permafrost, tundra and beyond the tree line

Today we drove the Dempster Highway (ends in Inuvik) to travel through the Tombstone Territorial Park. Although we were about two weeks early for spring (snow still lingering in places), we still found the alpine and arctic landscape amazing. Spring will bring flowers and lush green; fall, amazing colours, but today the vistas and subtle colours of the early spring were gorgeous. It was easy to imagine the thousands of caribou racing across the expanses of tundra. The guys managed to fish a couple of the streams and we all marvelled at the sky.