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Image info	Full size 2272 x 1704 269.8 Kb Half size 1136 x 852 95.0 Kb Quarter size 568 x 426 51.9 Kb Original 821.5 Kb maximum quality image.	After breakfast it was back onto the ice road and back to Inuvik. Unfortunately, when we checked the road conditions from Tuk the automated phone service said that the Dempster was shut beyond Fort McPherson due to blowing snow. So initially we just went as far as Inuvik.
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