Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Watson Lake to Whitehorse 6-21-2012

We are off again. Roads that curve & twist. Often narrow & usually no guard rails. There are alot of bridges over wide almost like a lake river & small narrow rivers.  

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In the next pix you can see a puff that looks like a cloud. And it is…A cloud of Dust. That’s where were headed. And then were there, the one with the Semi (HDT) coming out of it.   

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On this day we only saw one bear.

 

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Below the Mountains is the Continental Divide, which divides 2 of the largest drainage systems in North America –the Yukon River and Mackenzie River watersheds. Water draining west continues 2,300 miles to the Bering Sea & east 2,650 miles to the Beaufort Sea (Artic Ocean)  The other pix is just more Hwy with no guard rails and following the river.

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There were several roads that had wash outs most on the route we’ll be taking back that stranded people for about 5 days.  At this one they made a temp fix & are putting in a new bridge. As the Hwy continues it winds 7 times in & out of the B.C., Yukon Territory border. 

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The Nisutlin Bay Bridge is the longest water span on the Alaska Hwy @ 1,917 feet. It’s a metal grated bridge decking.  The Village of Teslin is on the other side. We stopped @ a beautiful viewpoint and had lunch before continuing down to the town.  

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Sandy & Mike                                            Sandy, Yoda & Steve

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Do you believe that truck passed us on the bridge. 

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We had to stop @ Johnsons Crossing for there World Famous Cinnamon buns. I can’t tell you if the recipe has changed but Steve said his mom would have thrown them out & started over? :-/ But of course you see they did get eaten. I think were used to lit & Fluffy buns & these weren't. 

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Next post will be @ Whitehorse.

1 comment:

  1. "World Famous Cinnamon buns." Hahaha! We saw the same ones two years ago. Yours were just two years older.

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