S4 EP4 A DOCUMENTARY. 935km Snowmobile adventure trip from northern BC to Dawson City Yukon.

Part one of our two part documentary, of our overland snowmobile adventure trip from Northern BC to Dawson city Canada
We love going on snowmobile adventure trips as a family. With our 10 year old son and our dog in tow.
On this snowmobile adventure, we are going from Northern BC to the Central Yukon, in Canada.
This documentary will follow us on a 935 km snowmobile expedition, That will take us to Dawson city Yukon. Leaving from our home in northern BC we are using lakes, rivers, historic routes, the yukon quest trail and the trans canada trail, to arrive Dawson city in Central Yukon. It’s a journey that turns into a test of our mental strength as we overcome obstacles and challenges on a continuous basis, without even considering the remoteness and extreme weather.
It’s not the first time for us to do such an adventure trip. When we first met, we did a similar trip on Snowshoes, from home to Carmacks, that took us 21 days, whereas this time, by snowmobile it will, or it should, take less time to get there.
Philippe has also done this journey with a dog team all the Way to Dawson city. So we have somewhat of an idea of what we are getting ourselves into. But conditions always change. and while we know this, we are definitely going to find that out just how much this is true, during this trip.
The first historic trail we are using is the Mail run trail. This trail was used during the gold rush, to deliver mail between the communities of atlin BC and Carcross Yukon by dogsled. From 1975 to 2005 commemorative mail runs were held by dog sled. In order to organize these commemorative mail runs, Bill Thomson, the organizer, was sworn in as a mail carrier. This way, during these commemorative mail runs, dog mushers could each carry a bag of stamped mail that they would deliver at the post office upon their arrival in the community.
The first commemorative mail run, 14 teams took part, some teams got lost, and some had to turn around, but when they came to moose arm on Tagish lake, there was a trapline trail to Atlin lake, which is the trail we are about to take.
We start preparing for departure at our off the grid home.
The first days of this snowmobile adventure trip are smooth sailing. We traverse the southern lake, use the historic Mail run route between Atlin lake and Tagish lake, continue on towards Carcross Yukon, from where we use the White pass railroad tracks, the Trans Canada trail and the Dawson overland trail to make progress toward Braeburn, where we are supposed to refuel.
The bumpy trails around Whitehorse cause our toboggans to break apart, we have to fix the Scooby mobile, and Leandra's toboggan. The mornings are cold but the days are sunny and beautiful.
When we get to Braeburn, there is no fuel available.
What do we do now? We calcluate that we probably have enough to make it to carmacks if ll goes well. but soon on the next day we start encountering major overflow. will we make it? Find out in the next episode of this crazy family snowmobile adventure trip.
OVERFLOW IS THE WATER THAT POOLS UP OVER THE ICE THAT’S BEEN PUSHED DOWN BY THE WEIGHT OF SNOW.
For more of our snowmobile adventure trips, check out these episodes:
Last year's snowmobile adventure trip . a 5 day loop from Atlin to Atlin via Carcross, Bennett and Fraser with a side trip to the Warm creek glacier
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Part 2: • S3| EP6 BC/Yukon Snowm...
Part 3: • S3 | EP7 COVID, Snowst...
Tent 12x14 montana canvas wall tent
Philippe rides a 2021 Skidoo Skandic SWT 900 ace. @skidoo
Leandra rides a 2022 Skidoo Tundra LT 600 ace, and pull the Scooby mobile.
Our son Justin rides a 2003 Skandic 440 lt.
Supported by Atlin Mountain Coffee Roasters :D
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We are the Brient family.
We live in Atlin, a remote community in northwestern BC on the Border with the Yukon.
During the week we operate a wood fired organic coffee roastery, at our off the grid property. On our weekends and days off, we go exploring the remote Yukon backcountry.
Join us for family uncommon adventure trips that take us deep into the Yukon and BC wildernesss.
We hope you’ll be inspired to take the road less travelled!
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[@n411xbushpilot]

Your Video is one of the very best videos I have ever seen, I have lived in Alaska for 53 years and traveled all over the Artic by Snow go and Helicopter and Small bush Planes your travels through Historic Yukon Klondike Territory is Amazing I have really enjoyed your accents you a beautiful Family.

[@TheBrientFamily]

Thanks for the compliments. 😊We are sure you have plenty of stories to tell about all your adventures!

[@jasonbrushett2005]

Wow!!! What an adventure for your family!!

[@TheBrientFamily]

It was!! Gotta top that this year 😅

[@stephanvallee5167]

Cannot wait for the next episode A++++

[@utah4551]

What an awesome adventure! looks exhausting so much work getting through that overflow!!

[@TheBrientFamily]

Indeed, but, at the same time, it would almost be boring if it was too easy!

[@blacksprucecountry1315]

Hi, new subscriber here from the other side of Canada, love watching your videos

[@TheBrientFamily]

Nice to virtually meet you, Thanks for watching our videos and subscribing to our channel! 🫶

[@DempsterDave]

What a great adventure. We have done the Atlin to Dawson trip for years but on four wheels. Bumpy trails? Moguls are so bad on our mountain trails that we often must go at a snail's pace. No gas at Braeburn at the time? But there are or used to be cinnamon buns. We always stopped there on our yearly trips to the Dempster. We would love to return, but it is a long way, and we are getting tired.

[@TheBrientFamily]

Hey Dave! It’s a beautiful trip by road also. Yep, There are still giant cinnamon buns at Braeburn, but the place has slowly changed over the last 15 years and the service is not so friendly anymore. But hey, one can always just stop in to pick up a cinnamon bun and keep going! Hope you are well, happy new year!

[@glennpurchase807]

This is quite the trip. I love it. Nice to see the boy included. A lot of hard work but a really rewarding trip. God bless. Looking forward to more videos.

[@TheBrientFamily]

Thanks Glenn, it was exactly that, hard work, but actually, that’s kind of how we like it. We made Many great memories. Thanks! We’ve got some fun stuff coming up and are already thinking about an epic snowmobile trip for next year spring break 😊

[@Dokkema]

That was a fantastic video…thanks so much for sharing….looking forward to the next one ❤

[@TheBrientFamily]

Thanks! Working on it, hoping to have it up on Sunday, we've had some computer issues, but fingers crossed that the computer keeps up to our demands!

[@dwaynefriedrick6326]

Wow. Yes what a test. Looking forward for next episode

[@TheBrientFamily]

Thanks Dwayne! If we have no more computer glitches, the next one should be up on Sunday 😊

[@TheBrientFamily]

In this episode we prep, we deal with overflow, we handle and bush fix unexpected breakdowns, and share some quality camp life. All in the beautiful scenery of Northern BC and the Yukon

[@PabloVillasenorPresents]

What an awesome adventure with gorgeous scenery along the way! Two thumbs up!

[@TheBrientFamily]

Thanks so much! It sure was a great trip

[@Kimbeattie]

This is a lot of work. I have been hot tenting for 40 years. We also winter camp and ice fish with snow mobiles. We have a number of wall tents but in the last five years have started to use lighter tent setup for winter camping. It is a tent I modified, it is like a tent within a tent some what like an" Artic Oven" tent. It is much lighter to transport( no steel tent poles) and takes less room in the trailboggan's . Neat trip but a lot of work have fun and always adventure.

[@TheBrientFamily]

Interesting. Yes, after a long and hard day out, it was an extra challenge for the backs to set up the tent and do firewood. We are seriously thinking about lightening our loads, and the tent is the first thing on the list. We have been eyeing the Esker tents, 13kg for a 12x12 and still breathable canvas to dry stuff out, that sounds amazing. Maybe we will bite the bullet on one later this summer. We are already thinking up a bigger trip for next year 😅

[@alphawhiskyadventures]

Have a 24 Expedition on order so good to see how capable the 20” skandic was in that overflow/slush. For your hot tent query, I use a Snowtrekker myself and they come larger to fit your crew.

[@TheBrientFamily]

Thanks for the tent recommendation, we will look into the Snowtrekker! Our Skandic is actually a Super wide (24”). The Tundra did not do good on the overflow, we even nicknamed it the ‘overflow magnet’. We are selling it. we will make a video about the reasons why. We ordered a 2024 Skandic wide track for Leandra. Cheers!

[@alphawhiskyadventures]

@@TheBrientFamily I went back and forth on the expy/skandic choice for the past year. For my region (southern MB/NW ON) the A arms won’t be a problem for where I go. Skandics are super capable machines.

[@ernieferguson9513]

@@TheBrientFamily I had a 600 ACE in a Tundra. Worst slush pig I've ever owned. Went to the 600r etec and would never go back to an ACE unless it was the 900 Turbo.

[@TheBrientFamily]

@@ernieferguson9513 Yes, after this Dawson city series, we have a review coming up on the machine and we are including the reasons why we are selling it.

[@travisleiske204]

I really would love to know where you can get some orthos. Peppers woodstoves in your tent. I really would love to find one of those. But I lived in car cross in 2001 of those in our trailer and they worked really good.I would love to have it find another one

[@TheBrientFamily]

You mean the hippie killers?! Yes, I don’t know what happened, it seems they are nowhere to be found anymore!