{"id":3384,"date":"2013-07-31T00:15:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T00:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2013-08-03T02:40:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T02:40:15","slug":"31-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/?p=3384","title":{"rendered":"31 July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Inuvik is great, but small, cold and far north. When I woke up this morning I previewed the weather for the next 2 days and its apparently storming on the whole route back to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dawson_City\" target=\"_blank\">Dawson<\/a> along the Dempster tomorrow, whereas today, its blue skies and peachy conditions!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4209.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SAM_4209\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4209\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4209_thumb.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Ferry over the Mackenzie river!<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4212.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SAM_4212\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4212_thumb.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"justify\">That said, I made a decision to ride back to Dawson in order to avoid having to ride the 800km muddy version of this road which is apparently a nightmare! I got out of Inuvik at about 11h30 and had an awesome, fast ride back. Whereas the ride to Inuvik took 10 hours, the return took only 8.5 which was great fun although perhaps a teeny bit reckless because of the speeds I was averaging!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Daysride41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Days ride..\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Days ride..\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/Daysride.._thumb1.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Return run to Dawson!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4218.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SAM_4218\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4218\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4218_thumb.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Spending the night in Dawson and undecided about whether I do the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Top_of_the_World_Highway\" target=\"_blank\">top of the world highway<\/a> and press onto Fairbanks tomorrow or have a lazy day here!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4224.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SAM_4224\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4224\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4224_thumb.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4226.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"SAM_4226\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SAM_4226\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capetocairo2010.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/SAM_4226_thumb.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inuvik is great, but small, cold and far north. 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