North to Alaska

We are heading out on a RV adventure........north to Alaska!

Sunday 10 July 2011

Dawson City Yukon



                                                                                                                                                                  Happy Canada Day all!

 Dawson City actually put on a pretty good parade for such a small town.  Lots of red fire engines and kids having a great time sounding the horns.   There were gold panning contests, cupcake decorating, lots of bbq and the usual official speeches.  

Happy Canada Day!



In the evening we stop by Diamond Tooth Gertie's for a bit of gambling, Linzi is buying, but we miss the show by a few minutes.  Later we get in line for the Sour Toe cocktail.  I won't go into the details but if you are curious you can look it up, one of The major events in Dawson City.

The three of us go out on the river for the paddle wheel cruise the next night and it is a perfect day for it.  Up river to the paddle wheel graveyard, there are about 4 of the old boats pushed up on the bank there.  At one time there were over 200 paddlewheeler's on the river, some of them a side wheel like the one we were on but mostly stern wheelers.  

Paddlewheel graveyard
Some souvenir shopping and we have had 5 great days in Dawson City.  We had some time with Linzi and Randy but they are both working (a lot!) so we decide to head on down the road. 
We spend the night at Fox Lake, just north of Whitehorse, a beautiful campground we found on our trip up here last year.  The sunset is spectacular!



With no real plans for  the trip home we decide on a side trip to Atlin, B.C.  The road down has lovely scenery but a lot of road work.  The lake is beautiful and the water so clear and cold.   The trip back certainly deposited a ton of dirt on the truck and trailer but it was worth the drive.




                                                                                                  We decided to stop again at Dawson Peaks Resort on Teslin Lake, but while we did try the fishing again there was still no northern pike for me.  I had hoped to catch one on the trip.  Joe hooked a large lake trout, I saw it too, but he lost it just at the dock.   


We are heading down Highway 37, the Cassiar Highway, it was closed by a huge forest fire when we were heading up north.   The burned area is very black, but in some spots the green grass is showing up.  There are mushroom pickers in the area, apparently the morel mushrooms come up after a fire.  

The road is rough, fairly narrow with lots of seal coating going on and no road lines.  We see quite a bit of wildlife, the most dramatic being this fox taking home some fresh lunch.  It crossed the road in front of us and stood on the side for a minute or so before walking past the truck to head off where it wanted to go.  

There were lots of black bears on the side of the road, one day we saw 6 in a short period of time.  And these three stone sheep looking a little rough loosing their winter coats.


We do a detour into Stewart, and that has to be the one of the most beautiful stretches of road in the province.  Waterfalls, steep mountains and the Big Bear Glacier feeding Bear River.  Just amazing!






Big Bear Glacier































Stewart itself has seen better times, a lot of the stores are empty or boarded up.  The people are friendly though and the scenery is wonderful.   

Just in case any of you following this are missing seeing pictures of Joe with large fiberglass wildlife here he is with the bear in downtown Stewart, BC.

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