Todays drive will be short 52 miles (back when the road was built Canada used miles, the milage markers are still used) around 80km. Tomorrow will be a long drive, so todays little hop will make tomorrow a bit easier.
The photos show the different scenery as we drive along the highway, we are in the Peace River area.
This is the top of South Taylor Hill which goes down to the Peace River, the hill is 6km. long at a gradient of 10%.
Just over the top and starting to descend, using a combination of wheel brakes and engine brake to get down, don't like using too much engine brake, the fuel consumption is off the chart.
Half way down, river just ahead, my combination seams to be working good. At the bottom all the photos Ruth took just show the rock/shale sides of the river, not very interesting. Drive through Taylor and Fort St. John to Charley Lake and stop at the Rotary Campground.
The campground is along side Charley Lake and this memorial is to 13 American solders who drowned when their pontoon raft loaded with caterpiller tractors and stuff capsized in a sudden storm
Looking northwest up Charley Lake
This one looking north east, its a big lake over 20km long
Change of subject. An electric car charging point, the second one we have seen on the Alaska Highway, would anyone attempt this journey in an electric car? Its a bit of a challenge with a petrol V8. Tomorrow we are heading for Pink Mountain.
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