FLY 4 FUN wrote: Your van should be more than up to the task. Provided you load carefully you should have no issues. I never had weight distribution or sway control and never felt that I needed it. My pup used hydraulic surge brakes which were fine, although electric brakes and a brake controller are a nice upgrade depending on the weight of the trailer.
You have hit many of the hot spots of the north that I have either flown into or dealt with through work (air traffic services). I started my career in the Yukon in Watson Lake (one of the prettiest places around).
Now the north is somewhere I look back on fondly, and hope to visit again (now that I have a bug-proof dining tent).
Daryll
Yeah the area around Watson Lake is very nice, but I'm not so sure about those hotels along the strip. He had to spend a night there a couple of years ago and needed a hotel because we didn't have an RV and had been driving about 12 hours. We checked out three or four places and they were all a little rough.
The next day we drove the Campbell Highway up to Ross River and then the North Canol up to Mile 222 in the NWT. That was a long, rough trip in our mini-van.
Please go hang out in RVing in Canada and Alaska regularly. I'm sure you will be able to answer "want to travel to NWT" questions.
Dempster is very high priority on my 'when I go that way' list.
We have a connection NWT and NL. Helge Ingstad, he who located the Viking settlement on our Northern Peninsula, L'Anse aux Meadows, NL, also visited your area in his early working years. He wrote about it in the 30's in The Land of Feast and Famine. That's been reissued in paperback this year. It's findable via http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/
I would rather expect to be in your nearest public library, too.
Please go hang out in RVing in Canada and Alaska regularly. I'm sure you will be able to answer "want to travel to NWT" questions.
Dempster is very high priority on my 'when I go that way' list.
We have a connection NWT and NL. Helge Ingstad, he who located the Viking settlement on our Northern Peninsula, L'Anse aux Meadows, NL, also visited your area in his early working years. He wrote about it in the 30's in The Land of Feast and Famine. That's been reissued in paperback this year. It's findable via http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/
I would rather expect to be in your nearest public library, too.
Hi Little Kopit!
I own that book you're talking about, but in hard cover. I've been to a lot of the places he talks about in the book, including Fort Fitzgerald, Fort Smith and Snowdrift (now known as Lutselk'e).
Plus I've been out to fishing and hunting lodges in the caribou range and upper Thelon River.
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