Canadas Best Value Inn Whitehorse

... Diese Nacht war die 700$-Nacht. Denn sie war die geilste Nacht, die man sich im Norden vorstellen kann und die geilste Nacht an die ich mich je
erinnern kann:
Sternenhimmel, Mondschein, grüne Nordlichter, die absolute Natur. Wir trafen Hirsche, Grizzlies, Big Horn Sheeps und Bisons auf den nächtlichen Straßen an, die uns das ein und andere mal zu einer Vollbremsung zwungen und uns einige Minuten staunen ließen. Wahnsinn!

Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada peterpanda

We hitched up the toad (the car being "towed") this morning and installed the tow car shield. It was just 100 miles to Whitehorse via the Alaska Highway, but it took almost two and a half hours. It rained all morning and there were a couple of sections of gravel and construction. The tow car cover and the tow bar are covered with grit and sand.

The weather is now clearly Alaska / Yukon Fall. The daylight hours are considerably shorter, really near “ ...

... The Canadians charge a deposit on almost all kinds of drink containers (milk jugs, juice bottles, and, of course, beer and soda cans and bottles). The only picture we have for today is the Whitehorse welcome sign and flowers. Jim wanted to take pictures of Jane washing the coach in her butt-floss bikini, but she hid the camera.

The coach and car got fueled up. Tomorrow we leave the Alaska Highway just 8 ...

... hence, the reason you can’t find many of the items we take for granted at home.

The park has a pressurized carwash so this afternoon Wendell took the truck over and gave it a hosing. He returned saying, “the pressure was not very pressurized”, but he managed to get off most of the half-inch of dried, chalky mud residue. The running boards were so caked you hated to step on them and then get inside the truck. The trailer is another ...

... sandy beaches, old cars and cigar smoking men), we were fortunate to spend some time at a rustic farm/ranch in the heartland of the country with some incredibly generous locals we met along the way...a small taste of the "real" Cuba.  I probably won't be sending out a notification email for these...if you're curious at some point and want to check them out, just log back on and they'll be there.  Give me a couple of weeks (at least), though.
 

... Young Alex Harvey (Pierre's son), and George Grey got onto the podium in the team sprint an exciting race with an even more exciting finish. While we were away, the Whitehorse temps went up to +10 (new record high) causing the snow to ice up and roads to get really icy. We arrived home to less snow but warmer temps and a long term forecast of regular temps with daytime highs of -13C, one heck of a lot better than the -30s of the past month. Of course the snow was ...

... only other person on the trail appears to be a neighbour who runs on it with about 6 dogs. Not the best but it's not our trail so we'll live with it. We've gone out with a brush saw and taken out deadfall and small bushes that will catch ski tips. There are rocks and as the snow cover is thin we've had to postpone using our neighbour's snow machine to pack. Skiing is still good though and it does give one a sense of satisfaction to clear and pack ...

From August through until the end of October I spent the time wrangling horses, and hunting Dall Sheep, Moose, Caribou, Wolves and Grizzly bear, somewhere around 200-400 kms north/west of Whitehorse. All the time camping in tents or plywood cabins, hiking various mountain ranges of the Siftons, Dry Pass, to plan ...

... the house we realized summer is nearly over up here and so we best get a move on. The Chilkoot Trail was next: The trial is managed by The National Parks Service in the US and Parks Canada. It is a cooperative effort between the two. Only Parks Canada charges for the use and runs the reservation system. We called Parks Canada to see if we could get onto the Trail anytime soon (the quota is 50 hikers / day to start) They had an opening in two days time. Not a lot of ...

... the Whitehorse area. First stop was Miles Canyon on the Yukon River. Before the dam and hydroelectric plant was built this area of the river had very strong rapids and was one of the hardest places for the prospectors of 1898 to navigate on their way to Dawson City. We crossed over the Yukon on the suspension bridge and walked along the trail for a bit. After leaving Miles Canyon we visited the Old Log Church ...