Margaret from Old Crow (look it up; village of 267 people in Northern Yukon) looks at me a bit taken aback. I repeat myself “We’re going to try to ride up Surfbird. What do you think?”. “Well …” she says carefully. “I suppose just because no-one’s done it doesn’t mean it can’t be done.”
We’re on the Dempster Highway; which begins in Central Yukon and ends at the Beaufort Sea on the Arctic Ocean. Margaret’s been working at the Tombstone Territorial Park Visitor Centre for quite a few years. Lots of hikers and looky-look drivers stop by on their way along the Dempster Highway as does the odd touring cyclist. But Sharon and I are looking to mountain-bike. And that makes us, relatively speaking, strangers in a strange land … Pictures and more