I already plan on doing it again, as I now have a few friends who are insisting on doing it now. I did this one solo.
Protip: flat tires are extremely common on the Dempster. Bring a full-size spare. Drain some air out of your tires (mine are 35 psi but I ran at 25 psi on the Dempster) as that'll help soften blows. Bring a pad for under your jack (like a square of 3/4" plywood) in case the road is wet, otherwise the jack will simply sink. The cause of flats are sharp rocks. Normally they'll lay flat, but your front tire may kick one up & it won't settle in time before your rear tire hits it. Almost all flats on the Dempster are the rear tires.
Also, don't rely on cell signals. You'll drive for hours with nothing. No cell signal, no houses, no services, no nothing except Mother Nature & the occasional fellow adventurer. It's
awesome.
There's 2 ferry crossings at the Peel & Mackenzie rivers. Eagle Plains is at around the halfway point & has everything you'll need: motel, camping spots with access to showers, a bar/lounge, full service station (fix your flats, top up your gas) etc.
One thing I learned was about
pingos, which are landscape features native to the area & only found in permafrost. Tuk has the highest concentration of them in the world, pretty neat. The last pic in my first post shows 2 of them in the distance.
2 moar Dempster pics: