Yea, I guess it's a bit stern but it is well merited. Before going up, the visitor's center people in Dawson warned me that 3 days earlier, a group of riders encountered a storm and the injured had to be HeliVac'd out and the bikes trucked out. This was one of many stories I got before heading North... and then I encountered two motorbike accidents and one flipped pickup enroute. One poor guy on his GS wiped out at this notorious dip in the road (plumits into the valley then goes right back up...steep) and ended up slaming into a signpost off the 3m side, only to have his bike follow him through... 2 broken ribs and back south...this happened 1 hour before I reached the dip on my way back, the rain/road was scary.


I did the Trans-Labrador Highway all the way to Goose Bay from Montreal in the early spring of the same year...I went to get ready for the Dempster. It was mid May and very cold...and wet...again. I left Lab City as the sun was setting to reach Churchill and hit rain...the road was just as bad as the Dempster in the rain...without the hills. The only cop on the road stopped me for being an idiot, but let me press on.


Actually, Quebec's Hwy 389 from Baie-Comeau to the Lab Border was definetely my favorite part...maybe because it was sunny on that stretch. But the curves and scenery was fantastic. I was heading back up there this May but there was still snow on the Hwy itself. Maybe next spring...there is another Quebec Hwy that goes to the James Bay then to the center of the province which is suppossed to be just as good.