Once again....out of order pictures.
In Haines Junction we stopped to get gas, and in drove this beautiful truck to fill up. It's the mobile classroom for the Alaska Fish & Game Dept. They were on their way to Haynes, AK.More later when the next pic. shows up.
Here's Chris in the jaws of the griz at the Mac Bride Museum in Whitehorse, Yukon. Great historical museum; loved it.
One of the stuffed animals.
OK, heres the crew of the mobile classroom. They told us LOADS of information on where to fish, how to fish; special kid days for King Salmon fishing, and on and on. Really a great stop along the way.
And here's the bear going over the mountain. It's a real big grizzley! We stopped along the road and watched him lumber up the side of a hill. Finally, again from the safety of our rig, we tried hooting, whistling....anything to get him to look around. But, the griz was used to idiots like us...and never payed any attention to us at all. At least, he wasn't hungry... :-)
This is the Kluane Icefield, i.e. glacier, in the Kluane Mountains. It is 2200 feet thick at parts.
These Kluane Mountains were just gorgeous. And we were lucky enough for the sun to peek through for me to get some good pictures of it.
We think this might be Mt. St. Elias in the St. Elias Mountains. Very fortunate to get this pic because moments later that little cloud covered it up. Can't remember right now how high it is....but it's a big mountain. One of the 10 or so highest in North America.
This big copper nugget was outside of the MacBride Museum in Whitehorse. Some guys went through all kinds of tribulations, years ago, to get this out of the back country. And here it sits.
This is a bad picture....but mind you the picture was taken out of a very boundy rig. However the picture is of section of the old road....the original Alaska Highway. One sees sections of this occasionally off to the side. The entire road become 30-40 miles shorter than it was in 1942 when it was origionally cut through the wilderness, because they take out curves, re route sections, etc. as the road is continually updated. But the 100 miles between Destruction and the Alaskan border that we drove last night was by far the worst section of road that we've been on. The many multitude of frost heaves and sinking road sections d/t the perma frost uenderlayment of the road was harrowing to drive on. We would see flags beside bad spots....but then there were many surprises that were not flagged. So, cruise control was out of the question. It was a constant eagle eye out for what was seen (and not seen) ahead. There is a joint project in this part of the road, still inside the Yukon, between the U.S. and Yukon to find a solution to the permafrost problem because 85% of the traffic on that section of the road is from AK. It's called the Shackwak project. (remembered that name cuz it's so unusual) They have a section of the road with some kind of cooling towers from under the road, then up beside the road: designed to keep the permafrost from melting into slush. They're monitoring it to see if it works. This gave the Army engineers big fits in 1942 building the road.
The awesome sunrise at 5:30 am in Teslin, Yukon yesterday when we woke up.
Here's Chris in the jaws of the griz at the Mac Bride Museum in Whitehorse, Yukon. Great historical museum; loved it. 
One of the stuffed animals.
OK, heres the crew of the mobile classroom. They told us LOADS of information on where to fish, how to fish; special kid days for King Salmon fishing, and on and on. Really a great stop along the way.
And here's the bear going over the mountain. It's a real big grizzley! We stopped along the road and watched him lumber up the side of a hill. Finally, again from the safety of our rig, we tried hooting, whistling....anything to get him to look around. But, the griz was used to idiots like us...and never payed any attention to us at all. At least, he wasn't hungry... :-)
This is the Kluane Icefield, i.e. glacier, in the Kluane Mountains. It is 2200 feet thick at parts.These Kluane Mountains were just gorgeous. And we were lucky enough for the sun to peek through for me to get some good pictures of it.
We think this might be Mt. St. Elias in the St. Elias Mountains. Very fortunate to get this pic because moments later that little cloud covered it up. Can't remember right now how high it is....but it's a big mountain. One of the 10 or so highest in North America.
This big copper nugget was outside of the MacBride Museum in Whitehorse. Some guys went through all kinds of tribulations, years ago, to get this out of the back country. And here it sits.
This is a bad picture....but mind you the picture was taken out of a very boundy rig. However the picture is of section of the old road....the original Alaska Highway. One sees sections of this occasionally off to the side. The entire road become 30-40 miles shorter than it was in 1942 when it was origionally cut through the wilderness, because they take out curves, re route sections, etc. as the road is continually updated. But the 100 miles between Destruction and the Alaskan border that we drove last night was by far the worst section of road that we've been on. The many multitude of frost heaves and sinking road sections d/t the perma frost uenderlayment of the road was harrowing to drive on. We would see flags beside bad spots....but then there were many surprises that were not flagged. So, cruise control was out of the question. It was a constant eagle eye out for what was seen (and not seen) ahead. There is a joint project in this part of the road, still inside the Yukon, between the U.S. and Yukon to find a solution to the permafrost problem because 85% of the traffic on that section of the road is from AK. It's called the Shackwak project. (remembered that name cuz it's so unusual) They have a section of the road with some kind of cooling towers from under the road, then up beside the road: designed to keep the permafrost from melting into slush. They're monitoring it to see if it works. This gave the Army engineers big fits in 1942 building the road.
The awesome sunrise at 5:30 am in Teslin, Yukon yesterday when we woke up.Well, we've have had such an eventful traversing of the Canadian part of the Alaska Hwy: ie. moose crossing the road, black bear, grizzleys, caribou, flat tire, windshield chip, freezing this morning (just me, not Chris), going over the Rockies in snow/rain, etc. This has been a wonderful trip. We actually crossed the 1222 miles of the Canadian part in 3 days! We weren't pushing it at all. But when it's raining, snowing, blowing and cold out...there wasn't a whole lot more to do than drive; and we did. And that got us here to Tok, Alaska. The gateway to Alaska. To drive into AK....ya gotta go through here....
So, until we connect again....
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