Friday, July 25, 2008

Friday, July 25...Watson Lake, Yukon Territory

Amazing...we're now in the Yukon Territory...absolutely beautiful, huge rivers, forested (spruce and aspen) mountains but to get the Internet we need to stay in a not so beautiful RV park. Oh, well.

But since Dawson Creek, we've stayed in three perfect Provincial Parks...Buckinghorse River, Stone Mountain and Muncho Lake. Every single site was right on the water with gorgeous views everywhere. While at Stone Mountain we took our first "real" hike...about 7+ miles up to Flower Springs Lake above treeline, nestled at the bottom of three large mountains. The most incredible part is that we saw no one else!

The roads have really been good and the traffic almost nil...not at all what we expected. We make pretty good time, about 250 miles/day. We've seen a couple of grizzly cubs, a black bear, several moose, lots of stone sheep and several caribou. Pretty easy to spot along the road because they trim back the forest for several hundred feet on each side.

1 comment:

Denise and Rick Cunningham said...

Sounds absolutely wonderful, now how about some PICTURES? Wish we could be there, but we're doing Nova Scotia this year!

Happy trails,
Rick and Denise Cunningham