Sunday, June 1, 2003

Day 11

Sunday 6/1/03
Before we left the park we went back to the springs for another dip. The springs are about 1/2 mile from the parking lot by boardwalk. Another hot spring pool is an additional 1/4-mile, that pool is 10 ft deep and not as clear. The first pool is about 3 ft deep and very hot on the upper end. Took some pictures, talked to two girls coming home from college to Alaska and found that they knew Margo Orr. Go to school with her at Washington University in St. Louis. Small World!! Also, met some people that we had met before who were also going to Alaska. At historical milepost 627 we officially entered the Yukon Territory for the first time although the road dips back into BC several times in the next 100 miles and at MP 635 we entered Watson Lake, known for all the signs, some 50,000, in the famous “Signpost Forest”.
Visitors are encouraged to add their own sign and vendors there are eager to sell signboards and paint with the loan of hammers and nails. Tonight we are camped at Baby Nugget Park 25 miles beyond Watson Lake. We saw several black bearand a buffalo today. The buffalo was shedding his winter coat so that is why he looks so ragged.
Simba missed seeing the bear and buffalo because she was napping.
142 miles today; 2949 total.

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