Arctic attempt

We decided to have a crack at heading to the Arctic circle as a side day trip.
Got 40ks into what would have been an 850km return journey.
It started pouring with rain, the road was made of glacial silt with an oil bed... a random way of making it float on the swamp prarie, this turns to mud!
With bikes sledging and fishtailing at 90kph, a chain which had dropped a couple of o'rings, freezing even tho wearing every piece of clothing we carried and a deteriorating forcast, we decided somtimes you have to call it a day and turn back.
So we will continue south towards the rockies from Dawson city, which is a time warp town, where im sure an old prospector with a beard down to his waist will step out of the bushes with his gold pan at any moment!