Six Lakes Quadding Trip

A few weeks ago we went on the neatest quadding trip to Six Lakes and the Richardson Sand Dunes. We left Ft.Mac on Friday morning with a posse of 9 (plus one dog) and drove to the staging area at the start of the Ft.Chip winter road. From there, we quadded into Keith's Lake and set up our campsite for the next 2 nights. The weather was great, the scenery and lakes were absolutely beautiful and the amount of sand everywhere was unreal! Who knew there was a desert in Northern Alberta? The quadding was so much fun too - the trail was really rough so there were some sore muscles the next day and some of our cargo, including one of the tub trailers, didn't survive the journey. But, it didn't seem to slow us down much as we managed to put almost 300 km on our quads that weekend. It was a good thing the boys packed lots of extra gas because we needed every last drop to get back out!

Miles and miles of sand trails

Kirt & Jeff at one of the 'Six Lakes'

Richardson Sand Dunes

So beautiful

Happy campers

Heading home and packing out the busted trailer!

Where The Highway Ends

It's been confirmed, the highway does indeed end. The gravel road ends about an hour north of Ft.Mac, before turning into a bumpy sandy trail through the boreal forest. In the winter, the trail is flooded and becomes the 223km ice road to Fort Chipewyan. And in the summer it's the perfect starting point for a quadding trip!

Back in Business

I just got back from a 3 week "working holiday" at the farm, so my apologies for neglecting this blog! Harvest is all wrapped up now and I'm back in the Mac with a backlog of stories and updates to post, so I'll get on that tomorrow. For now; here's a picture of the seed collectors in action and one of the local moose that likes to hang out in front of our house.