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Originally Posted by craigwd
Been hoping to do the Dempster sometime over the next couple of years but haven't really gotten around to the planning.
Any tips on how to start? Do you just rent a car/camper in Dawson and fly in?
I assume the bugs are terrible. Does it make it unbearable? Is there cell service/radio signals?
Been on the bucket list for a while.
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As I said, I was with a group of 8 other people, 9 of us all together. The company I used did all the rest. I flew into Whitehorse, met up with the group, and went on from there.
If you start in Dawson, where the highway starts, you will miss Kluane Park, and it is beautiful as well.
My group tour also included some historical stuff as well as some archeology. One of the best archeology labs and holdings of organic fossils is in Whitehorse...which is why we started there.
Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre
Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. It and many other fossils and bones were found by miners in the area.
It is home to three mummies. The horse is 20,000 years old. The six week old wolf is 40,000 years old. The caribou is 80,000 years old. They have been able to get DNA from the mummies.