Two final destination points have roads leading to them in NWT. One is INUVIK (the only *public* hiway inside the arctic circle in North America which I've NEVER been to) and the other NWT destination is 'YELLOWKNIFE' which I HAVE been to.

YELLOWKNIFE definitely wins the weirdest place in all of canada award...
EXPECT THE FOLLOWING ON YOUR ARRIVAL: drunken indian chicks that are WAY too friendly (I'm still recovering from THAT traumatic experience). If you go there looking for work forget it...
And oh yeah, not only is it impossible to catch a ride out - if you're there in the wrong season you may hafta wait for the bridge to melt before they can run the ferry across the river.

Yellowknife memories: the polar bear license plates...
Having to wait 4 hrs for gas at a staion on Hay River.
Lotsa rain!
Losing 20 LBS.
Begging the salvation army to help me get transport out and them refusing (because we don't allow provincial line crossings - local sal. army captain...)
Being bought a helluva lot of beer but never getting any FOOD...
And finally leaving with a Kirby vacum crew to Edmonton...

Incidentally kids, as near as I can figure that Kirby job is a ripoff so if anybody in Edmonton is reading this and they see the want ad...you've been warned...
However, there IS a free shower available at a free campground on the edge of town and YK does have a rudimentary bus system.
One endorsement: the Circle K Shell station.
One slam: the guy who owns the 'Monkey Tree' bar and all the others...

Two notes: ' hi-test' = Old Vienna beer.
Ulu = knife.

coolness 4
avg crossing time FROM HIGH PRARIE, ALBERTA approx 36 hrs

TO same: WEEKS...

FROM 'NOTES':

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: very easy to get INTO Yellowkinife, very difficult to GET OUT - I spent a month there one week...
I liberated a cool polar bear license plate from the FRONT (the one w / no sticker) of a junk car...
There is a place for free showers but it's cold and remote... (I got WAY stranded and WAY hungry and asked the salvatuion army if they could score me a bus ticket to Edmonton and they refused to...

I FINALLY got a lift out with some psychotic Kirby vacuum cleaner salesmen to Edmonton... But we had to wait for the ice bridge to melt so we could take the ferry across (a week wait)!

A guy named 'SAM' owns every bar in town, and unless you have a job lined up, don't go... I say...if you DO go (hey it's your life) the cheapest grocery store is in the YK mall...
And be prepared for attempted seduction by bored 1/2 drunken native chicks... And of course, like AK, recreational fistfighting is 'de riguer' and 'the longer the hair the redder the neck...'
One note: the longest line I've EVER seen anywhere is outside the Yellowknife liqour store before it closes for Sunday...

One ok spot - the Circle K...

coolness: 30

OK to walk on highways - no freeways...

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