Yukon.Hey there are bears here!

May 21, 2009, Thursday
Whitehorse, Yukon

We have to pinch ourselves ( or wait for the next frost heave) to make sure we remind ourselves how far North we are. This is really spectacular country. It’s about 150 miles between gas stops, no towns to speak of until you arrive at a town…duh, sounds like the “I found it in the last place I looked!” type of comment.
We stayed at a beautiful lake: Muncho lake. Still frozen, snow in the surrounding mountains(that is where the pic is from).

When we left there, heading for Whitehorse, we drove over the highest place of the ALCAN: Summit Lake. We had a 45min hold as a semi’ had slid off at the top and a grader and sander were working the road. I think our Maine crews could have done better. When we checked in at our camping area in Whitehorse the check-in person said “what color is your truck?”(for the registration form), then she said “no let me guess…mud gray?” How did she know? I think she has seen folks who have driven this road before. Dirty..dirty..dirty. My OCD goes nuts.

Whitehorse is really a nice town. Snow is almost gone, 65F. Very beautiful, located on the Yukon River, lots of local hikes and wild life stuff. We passed an Eagle watching the river all the time. Oh yeh..on the way here we ventured past 1 black bear, 1 brown bear, 20-30 Bison(the ‘wood’ species) and a few caribou. We also saw a lot of wolf scat in the woods. Also..Mick got what I call “Bear Weird” on a hike the other day( in Maine she knows when they are around) , we turned around and went back to camp. Hmmm.

So today was taking care of lower 48 business( like ..trying to close the sale of my mother’s condo in Florida,while in the Yukon!!!), fixing some blowing fuse issues with the truck, putting on a new trailer tire, and some other stuff. Reality does find its way to us. Got the truck and trailer washed today…mabe I should go back to camp registration and change the “color” part of the form!

Tomorrow…we’re off..two more days to Alaska(I hope). The next stretch of road is reputationed to be the worst. 30 mph speed stuff. We’ll see. Tok Alaska will be our next “big” stop. Tomorrow will be a road side(Boondogling) place. Can’t wait to start fishing.