If funding and conditions allow, the ice road offers an affordable, comfortable, and quick escape from town. Families with small children and elders, for whom travel by snowmachine may be difficult, can travel in style on the ice road! For many people the ice road is more than a Sunday drive, it is a weekend trip to visit relatives they would not otherwise see, all while enjoying a landscape usually reserved for those hardy enough to make the trek by snowmachine. ...
If a road is built, these students will also be able to feel proud knowing that they helped to connect the people of the Northwest Arctic.
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