This would pretty much sum it up. Close to 1000 miles on a dirt road, over the Continental Divide 3 times in that 1000 miles. (In all we crossed the divide like 8 times.) Blown tire, broken windshield, rebalance all 4 tires in Dawson City when we finish and we got a cool sticker. I would say that was a massive win!

So here’s the deal, never drive 10 hours with only 2 diet chocolate drinks all day. What happens is you see something on the lodge menu called The Heartbreaker. Now on the surface that sounds bad enough but when the cook says she’s never made it and then calls the entire staff over to look at when she’s finished then that would be bad right?

No it gets worse. The lodges staff then ask if they can take photos of you holding it up because they never thought anyone would order it. What they didn’t know is I’m a Coug and we’ll order anything, no matter how unsafe.

But broke down in Dawson City

Really Arctic? I drive 500 miles up a dirt highway and now a massive rain storm hits? Well, it’s a Jeep, I got 2 spares and now the dirt highway is a mud highway. I may be a little late getting home.

The “Lost Patrol”, found on March 22, 1911. Buried here at Fort McPhearson, NWT. Their last journal entry:

“We have now only 10 pounds of flour and 8 pounds of bacon and some dried fish. My last hope is gone…. We have been a week looking for a river to take us over the divide, but there are dozens of rivers, and I am at a loss.”