Alaska Highway, Mile Marker 1099.7
Today, we had some
of the worst road conditions we've experienced so far. Thank goodness we all covered the front of our towed vehicles.We started off from Whitehorse on schedule and made a stop at the Visitor's Centre in Haines Junction. Other than being the place where the road to Haines meets that Alaska Highway (clever, right?), it's also the gateway to Kluane National Park. No, I'd never heard of Kluane (klu-WAN-ne), either, but it's a huge protected area, home to Mount Logan (highest mountain in Canada and second-highest in North America, only visible and accessible by plane) and several large ice fields. We drove along the edge of the Park, and Kluane Lake, for much of the afternoon.
Near the Lake, we stopped in the small town of Burwash Landing (home to the world's largest gold pan) and stopped for the night at a rest area (well, I think it'll eventually be a rest area; right now it's more like a gravel pit) that should provide us a safe haven for the night. Tomorrow, we'll finish up the bad stretch (you know the frost heaves are bad when you make better time on the gravel stretches in construction zones) between here and the Alaska Border - yea!
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