Back North
The title of this log entry may give you some clue on where I decided to go. That's right: back north, back to Yellowknife! Not to BC, but to NWT. I missed Roslyn so much, that I decided to head back and suprise her by just showing up again.
So, I hopped into the bus in Jasper headed for Edmonton, to transfer to a bus that would take me as far as Enterprise (just south of the Great Slave Lake, near Hay River). As we approched Edmonton though, I was told there was no connection to Enterprise, but that I could only get as far north as Peace River. Nice. I decided to head up anyway, trying my luck hitchhiking up. I started by taking a taxi to a decent starting point, the beginning of the highway north. While there was not a lot of traffic, it took an hour and a half to get the first ride, about 150km up. At least I would be at a better place than at an intersection in the middle of nowhere.
It did not take too long to get a next ride, to another intersection a bit south of High Level. "A bit" turned out to be about 60km, so that was not a very good place to be, especially since trafic was pretty low. I got a ride to High Level pretty soon though, and arrived there just after noon. Not too bad. I wend in for some bruch and tried to hitch a ride further north. A car that I had seen passing at the intersection passed me again, and stopped this time. Two girls in a small jeep were going to Yellowknife, but the car was already so packed that it wasn't possible to fit me and my luggage in there as well. Still, they assured me it should be no problem to get a ride, they had done it themselves on more than one occasion. Well, it turned out that it took quite a lot of time to get a ride. After trying for more than four hours I finally found somebody that was willing to take me, and he was going to Yellowknife (still a ride of about 700 km!). The rest of the journey was pretty uneventfull, except for the large amount of buffalo we saw along the way. Other wildlife spotted included a cayote, a wolf, a hawk, deer and moose with young. Not bad, for a single ride!
Roslyn could not believe her eyes as she saw me standing at her doorstep once more, just after midnight. It was good to be back...
So, I hopped into the bus in Jasper headed for Edmonton, to transfer to a bus that would take me as far as Enterprise (just south of the Great Slave Lake, near Hay River). As we approched Edmonton though, I was told there was no connection to Enterprise, but that I could only get as far north as Peace River. Nice. I decided to head up anyway, trying my luck hitchhiking up. I started by taking a taxi to a decent starting point, the beginning of the highway north. While there was not a lot of traffic, it took an hour and a half to get the first ride, about 150km up. At least I would be at a better place than at an intersection in the middle of nowhere.
It did not take too long to get a next ride, to another intersection a bit south of High Level. "A bit" turned out to be about 60km, so that was not a very good place to be, especially since trafic was pretty low. I got a ride to High Level pretty soon though, and arrived there just after noon. Not too bad. I wend in for some bruch and tried to hitch a ride further north. A car that I had seen passing at the intersection passed me again, and stopped this time. Two girls in a small jeep were going to Yellowknife, but the car was already so packed that it wasn't possible to fit me and my luggage in there as well. Still, they assured me it should be no problem to get a ride, they had done it themselves on more than one occasion. Well, it turned out that it took quite a lot of time to get a ride. After trying for more than four hours I finally found somebody that was willing to take me, and he was going to Yellowknife (still a ride of about 700 km!). The rest of the journey was pretty uneventfull, except for the large amount of buffalo we saw along the way. Other wildlife spotted included a cayote, a wolf, a hawk, deer and moose with young. Not bad, for a single ride!
Roslyn could not believe her eyes as she saw me standing at her doorstep once more, just after midnight. It was good to be back...
posted by André Somers at 3:11 PM
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