Day 16

Friday 6/6/03
We are on the road again. We left Pioneer Park at 11 a.m. and headed north through Haines Junction. Road was very wavy so only drove 45 to 50 MPH. Teddy drove for a while north of Haines Junction while Simba and I napped, as I was sleepy. A 10 mile long construction with large gravel slowed us down to 20 MPH. Caught a stone and took a quarter sized chip out of the front window of the truck on the lower left (driver’s side)
We saw sheep on Sheep Mountain by the shore of Kluane Lake. Camped for the night at Congdon Creek, Yukon Government Camp Ground on Kluane Lake.
155 miles today; 3637 total.

Day 15

Thursday 6/5/03
Stayed at Pioneer Park in Whitehorse for yet another day, now the 4th day. In the morning we went to Miles Canyon on the Yukon River for a spectacular view of the canyon.The canyon ends with the Whitehorse Rapids. The rapids were a major obstacle for the prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 and many men lost their lives trying to ford them.
There is a pedestrian suspension bridge spanning the canyon and after we had crossed the bridge we looked back and a red fox bolted out of the woods and ran across the bridge.
We then shopped for a few things in Whitehorse and returned to the park. In the afternoon went to the Beringia Museum. It was about the glaciers that formed the region and the pre-historic animals that lived here. Simba thought that pre-historic animals were not worth her attention; she is more interested in modern ornithology and small mammals.We also saw the world’s biggest weather vane at the Whitehorse airport. It is a Douglas DC-3 mounted on a rotating pedestal so that it rotates and points it’s nose onto the wind.

44 miles today; 3482 total