Alaska Highway Day 2

Its raining, in fact it rained all day, which made for a difficult drive, the rain sometimes very heavy, other times just a drizzle.

 

This is a Oil/Gas workers village, there are lots of these work/rest places along the highway for the oil workers.

 

Dropping down to the Sikanni River, the grade was 9% for 3km;. we stayed the night at the camping on the side of the river.

 

Here we are parked among the puddles, grotty camping and no wifi (writing this in Fort Nelson) The rain let up just long enough for us to go on a short walk up the river.

 

Looking back towards the bridge, the original bridge was made of wood and was built in less than 84 hours by The 95 Engineer Regiment, all black African Americans.

 

These "cribs" were built just up stream from the bridge to protect it from ice flows and driftwood. The distance travelled today was 175km.