Blogs from Yukon, Canada, North America - page 34

Hi everyone, So we have offocially made it through the wilderness. We started off driviing on the Sea to Sky Highway, which was unbelievable. It literally starts in the coast of British Colombia and brings you through mountain ranges and summits that make you feel like you can touch the sky. The views were spectacular. It brought us to Clinton, BC. From Clinton we drove through forests after forests to get to Smithers, BC. The forest started to turn into the Arctic Black Spruce forests that I love so much. The trees are so spindly and unique. It reminds me of something out of a Tim Burton movie. I love them so much, they have a lot of character. In some parts of the forest the have what they call a drunken forest because the ground ... read more

It’s now day 2 of driving on the Al-can and we haven’t made it that far. We’ve only driven about 5 hours each day -- we made it as far as Whitehorse, in the Yukon, today. Yesterday, on the Dawson Creek to Watson Lake section, we saw so many Caribou - most of them were standing in the middle of the road, apparently licking salt off the road. We also saw a Big Horn Sheep - just one on a section where some rocky cliffs came close to the road. He ran off into some pine trees pretty fast once he saw us, and then he looked like he was going to climb up the cliff, but I think he was trying to fake us out because he just stayed in one spot. I think he ... read more

Here we go again, another blogg from the bike. So here I am at Eagle Plains, essentially a few transportable buildings that are close to 30 years old and in their time were at the peak of technology. Because the place is small and in the middle of no-ware (people I tried to ring in the next town south didn’t know where it was and thought it was in the USA) it has to be totally self sufficient. That means water and sewage management (liquids will freeze in the winter) has to be done on site while you have to generate your own power to run a hotel, kitchen, road maintenance crew and camp site. EP is also the only fuel for around 300km in each direction. Oh yeh, as there are no cables going in ... read more

http://www.travelblog.org/gmaps/map_1uJ.html A new direction of travel, a new adventure and a new mode of transport. Having flown to Inuvik after my paddle it was time to pick up my bike and food supplies so I could start the ride south through the Yukon Territory to a town called Dawson City. This sounded easy enough, until I reached the shipping company who informed me that my bike was still sitting in the shipping yard about 1500km away. With a start like that things could only get better! While waiting for the bike to be flown in, I met up with some friends who offered to do a food drop for me on their way south which was much appreciated as it meant I only had to carry 7 days food instead of 14 - thanx gang! One ... read more

From Juneau, we took an Alaska ferry to Skagway. The passenger and automobile carrying ferry traversed the Lynn Canal and the Taiya Inlet. The Lynn Canal is actually a fjord some 90 miles (140 km) in length and one of the world's deepest. Skagway was full of reminders of the Klondike Gold Rush era, only 60 years before. We stayed at the Golden North Hotel, built in 1898. It was authentic, with creaking wooden floorboards and large room doors. The rooms were undoubtedly as they had been, except for newer furniture. At Skagway, we boarded a White Pass & Yukon (WP&Y) train for Whitehorse. The locomotives were newer diesels, but the wooden coaches original to the Klondike period. A lunch stop was made at Bennett. The 110 mile (177 km) narrow gauge railway was built in ... read more