Edgewater Hotel Whitehorse

... other side of the road. About half way along we saw a bear dart across the road ahead, where it began munching on a shrub in the shady grass. We had a quick stop at the Continental Divide, where the water flows west to the Pacific Ocean and east to the Arctic Sea. Then we drove along the Rancheria River Valley to the huge and fast-flowing Liard River. At Watson Lake we had a wander through the famous Signpost Forest, where people from all over the world have left all sorts of signs ...

... Riverboat that had navigated the Yukon river from Whitehorse to Dawson City is now a museum. There is an international airport here, but it is rather small. They have an airplane mounted up high which is so perfectly positioned, that it is used as a wind vane. It shifts at the slightest change in the wind. There aren't too many TV channels where we are. Two of ...

... and boardwalk trail through the forest which lead to the picturesque falls. The mosquitos were hungry and I'm so happy that I brought my head-to-toe bug suit.<br><br>We came through the Cassiar Mountains and over the Continental Divide.<br><br>It seems that everyone's main objective today is to find cinnamon buns. John and Margaret Lester, from Tampa, FL, who have been to Alaska before ...

Something different today -- a little road trip up to Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon Territory by way of the Klondike Highway. The road is yet another path through much of the same country we travelled on foot and by train; it crosses the tracks at one point. But it's definitely a different experience on four wheels. Thankfully, there's virtually no traffic to contend with along the way, so it's a pleasant drive. <br>We're ...

... only yards apart past Iron Creek<br><br>and FINALLY.......what I've been waiting to see......<br>1 moose in a lake near Rancheria<br><br>If we total this all up, I'm sure we can make a Partridge in a Pear Tree song out of it ;o)<br><br>One science fact that I had to look up. The roadway signs mentioned that there were both buffalo and bison around. I had no idea what the difference was...or what we were actually taking pictures ...

... Fri getting racers back on the water. After it was all over we had been up for 26 hours with only a few hours of quick snoozes. We chose not to follow the race up to Dawson for the finish as we had done that last year. For all this we got a T shirt! I&#8217;d do it again! We are now thinking about heading home. We have to start packing and paring down our food supply. We&#8217;re not sure how we will get all the stuff we accumulated over the past year home&#8230;.. :)

... or not at all so we frantically looked for new digs until at least June. The alternative would be to live in our camper which, if you've seen it, would be a trial in cold weather. We did arrange to stay in a log cabin out the Annie lake road approx 50km from town for the first two weeks of May. It belongs to friends who are heading out. We did have a fall back at a neighbour's back yard, close to us, if all else failed but it would have been the camping deal ...

... have started to time our rocks. Cheryl has a stopwatch on her broom handle and I use a regular stopwatch. We time, T to hog for draws only, and it has helped in judging weights. I find I have to adjust for the individual style of delivery though as we all seem to throw rocks differently. After not having gone to a dance other than wedding receptions for many years we went to our second dance in a month called the Senior's Soiree which is a fund raiser for the ...

... Haines was another of the jumping off spots for the Klondike Goldrush. It was originally an Army outpost established in response to Sam Steele's NWMP presence on the Chilkoot Trail back in the 1890s. The military pulled out after WWII and tourism, logging and fishing have become the economic mainstays of the town. This area has a lot of Brown (Grizzly) bears and Bald eagles. The salmon are the reason they hang out here. We saw one bear sitting in the ...

... to hang out WAY UP on cliffs. So where do you go to get them?...Way up on the mountains. Everyday we would take off and look for sheep. The prerequisite for hunting is a good set of binoculars and lots of patience. We hike, stop scan the rocks and hike again. We'd be sweating, freezing, and panting hard all within ten minutes as we scrambled over the mountains. Some nights we get back at 8pm eat supper, and hit the sack. One day, we did get close enough to some legal ...