We stopped at the gas station at Toad River and had coffee with cinnamon rolls. The ceiling in the cafe had over 9000 hats attached to it.
Risto wanted to show us a moose wallow where he had hunted before so we drove back a few miles and up a small logging road to his tree stand. The moose come here to eat the mud which apparently has minerals they need. Its pretty hard to walk in there. You have to jump from one clump of grass to another to avoid the deep ruts left by the moose. Graham climbed up to sit in the chair.
Earlier while we had been at the Toad River Cafe someone had reported a roll over accident a few miles south. This is a bad place to have an accident! The EMT crew that responded was from Fort Nelson about 200km away!
We also noticed a truck pulling a trailer with a wrecked BMW motorcycle in it. Turns out this was the same motorcycle that was involved in the accident that the truck driver told Graham about a few days back. The rider had broken a shoulder, broke 7 ribs, and punctured a lung. There is no EMT response on the Dempster so the truck driver had given him a ride to the Inuvik hospital where he gor pneumonia. He was finally airlifted to Spokane a week later for surgery.
It poured rain the rest of the day into Fort Nelson where we decided to stop for the night.
I tried to update the blog from there. Even though they advertised high-speed ADSL Internet, the uplinks from the city must have been via satellite. Not very useable.
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