2024-08-05 Inuvik, the arctic city along the Dempster Highway

[@SirGatras]

5:33 fun fact about those triangles on top of the utilidors, the town put them there becasue kids would always get on and walk across them. It didnt work, we just shimmied across the top of the point, so they made taller trangles! That also didn't work because then we just hung from the point and shimmied across.

[@dgrahammartin]

Cool! I bet there are a lot of other cool things about Inuvik that I didn't know when I was there.

[@2GringosOnTheGulf]

The Igloo church awesome, sure brings back memories for me. Great vid guys thank you for sharing, I loved the time I spent in Inuvik. Though after 5 years I was ready to head south. Cheers from 2 Canadians living in Mexico. 💖✌🏽

[@dgrahammartin]

Thank you for commenting. Unlike real tourists, we were more interested in local businesses and how the city was built on permafrost.

[@2GringosOnTheGulf]

@@dgrahammartin Check out Flin Flon Manitoba my hometown.

[@dgrahammartin]

Yes, I feel I need to explore more of Canada. Our next Canadian trip will probably be the east coast, though. Some of the southern US is before that.

[@2GringosOnTheGulf]

14:22 is the Peppermill Restaurant or it used to be anyway, looks like that has changed lots the hotel used to be the Finto Lodge. The highway used to go right past it, now I see a nova hotel.

[@jonamos3317]

Yes the finto is gone has been for a while and only have one main bar now and that’s the mad trapper

[@2GringosOnTheGulf]

@jonamos3317 I remember the Mad Trapper. I lived in Inuvik for 5 years.

[@jonamos3317]

@@2GringosOnTheGulf only bar that has a dj that’s also the bartender/bouncer

[@2GringosOnTheGulf]

@jonamos3317 😂

[@charlesel5983]

houses and buildings cant be built on permafrost as it would destabilize when the heat melts the ground

[@dgrahammartin]

Yes, I have seen in documentaries that it is a disaster. It was really neat seeing how this community was built for myself.

[@jonamos3317]

Older houses are still built on pilings that do go into the ground it’s just hard to see some of them as the skirting of houses cover them