Souvenirs From The Road: Frost Heaves, Kluane and Tok

Day 43 – June 13 was a beautiful drive over to Haines Junction, Yukon. There were beautiful views of glaciated highways. At the Chilkoot Pass I took a video at the summit, which was 3,510’.

Check out the glacier!

The highway just keeps winding through the scenery!

Thoroughly enjoyed a stop and quick hike to Million Dollar Falls.

Next was a photo viewpoint of the Kluane range. We decided to stay at Pinelake Government Campground which is a few miles outside of Haines Junction. It’s ok. Nothing to write home about. Haines Junction is a small town, at the southern point of the Alaskan Highway. They have a very nice visitor center here.

View of Pine Lake

Day 44 – June 14 was an easy drive day. We were going to the Cottonwood Campground which is located on Kluane Lake, close to Destruction Bay. It’s a beautiful campground! But no laundry or trash service here, due to the remoteness. And it’s only 15 amp since they run off of generator. But it’s plenty cool so don’t need any a/c. Kluane Lake is really big!

Very scenic!

Cute campsites.

Kluane Lake

We went to the Visitor Center at Tachal Dhal. We spotted Dahl sheep on the mountain. Took a drive down a gravel road to see Silver City. It was once the site of a trading post, roadhouse and the NorthWest Mounted Police Barracks. There are also some old fox pens. Pretty interesting.

Can you spot the sheep?

Love how the Canadian parks have these chairs!

Silver City ghost town

Pretty cool

What would it take to get it running again?

Greg and Donna found a good fixer upper!

At the campground this evening we enjoyed some Canadian country and western music at the campground! Unexpected and very much enjoyed it! And then a great kinda sorta sunset.

Ron taking it all in.

Day 45 – June 15 was our day of driving over the frost heaves! Oh my! We did enjoy sleeping last night to the sound of rain on our roof. It was 42 degrees when we woke at 6:00 a.m. A beautiful morning – low clouds on the mountains, reflected in Kluane Lake.

Beautiful morning!

We are headed to Tok today. It is a hard 240 miles, slow driving, 6 hours and rough. Going through customs this time was a breeze. No questions asked about veggies, alcohol, tobacco or guns. The trailer got very dirty on the road. We are staying at the Sourdough RV Park which is nice. Did laundry and cleaned house. Ate an awesome dinner at Fast Eddy’s – grilled salmon but we all soaked up that beautiful, fresh green salad bar! We have lived in fear of having our veggies confiscated at the border(s) so chose to live without lately. Ron and I went to the pancake toss they have at the campground which was a lot of fun.

And that swatch of cleared land is the international border.

Sit in the middle and enjoy being in 2 countries!

That is what a frost heave looks like through our front windshield!

Day 46 – June 16. How sweet it is! Decided to cover the kitchen window last night and guess what…..we more or less slept in until 8:45! You just have to get used to this daylight all night long! We are finding that Tok isn’t that exciting of a town like we had hoped. Decided to take a road trip up to Chicken where we did a little panning for gold (flakes I should say). On the drive back, the guys stopped to help 3 older ladies (2 in their 80’s) that were on their 2^nd flat tire.