Day 6

Dual tire damage on the Mazda 323	The ice had some significant ruts and cracks. Rob and Nick got sucked into one and both tires on one side got ripped. They went back to Inuvik to get new tires then headed on to Eagle Plains. Glenn and Greg in the Subaru WRX STi blistered some tires in the same way.	Changing tire

Montero on the Ice Road	Paul and Paul from the Seattle area in car 13 get the award for the most time with their heads under the bonnet. Their Mitsubishi Montero is a feisty truck but the next day on the way down the Dempster they moved over for an oncoming truck and hooked the ditch. They laid it on it's side but both of them were uninjured. Sweep got them back upright and rolling but later the engine seized. Turns out the mechanic in Carmacks has pile of Montero engines. Including a sweet Turbo Diesel.	13 Coming at you
	While Jim's WRX was waiting in Dawson Creek Dan went to Tuk with Baron Rene in his Audi S4. An S4 is a twin turbo fun machine.
Dan and S4		S4
S4 in Tuk		on ice

Trusty 325iX with Arctic Ocean behind	Tuktoyaktuk The end of the ice road. Eric at monument	Tuk Town
Baron and Dave's Mom	Tuktoyaktuk The end of the ice road. Eric at monument	Dave Dennison and Pete Soper
	Ft McPherson Tent and Canvas Shop Here they make tents and other canvas things. I want to put one of their prospector's Tents on my Christmas list. We were hanging-out with Pete Schneider, Gary Webb and Ronald Aherns
Canvas shop		Eric and Canvas
Eric and Canvas		Pete Schneider and Canvas

blowing snow	Igloo Church in Inuvik	down the pass
hey you, over here!	Waiting for the thaw	X3

Tracker Eric	Geocache Arctic Circle GeoCache We'd checked the Internet before leaving Seattle and discovered that there was a Geocache at the arctic circle crossing on the Dempster. On the way back it was still light out so we decided to go find it. When we were just about to give up we found it and extracted it. Just after extracing it my camera's batteries chilled-down so we didn't get any snaps of the contents. We left a TeamD patch and a nice journal entry. The Geocache hunt wasn't apart of the rally just something extra that we did for fun.	Searching
About to give up		What's this?
Pulling cache		Cache location as seen from Pullout

iX Plow	When you can't pay your bill at Eagle Plains Station you hav to go out and plow the road.	iX Plow

sun over ice	At these latitudes dawn and dusk last a looooong time.	hours of dusk

Bar scene in Eagle Plains	Jim and alternator	Eric and Alternator

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