Down Highway 37 to Stewart, BC.

A wet start again, but only for the first 100km. or so, this road is amazing, a little scary in places, but the  views make up for it, even in the rain.

  

One of the things we have noticed about western Canada is no matter what the weather, there is always

something going on with the sky. Some of the cloud formations are just out of this world.

 

The Bear Glacier, you drive past this glacier on the road into Stewart.

 

More mountains and sky, lots of both here in British Columbia.

 

When I was setting up the trailer yesterday afternoon when we arrived in Stewart this little caterpillar walked by, funny looking guy. The butterfly was flying around our picnic place

 

Today we are crossing over to the Alaska side (leaving the trailer in Stewart, theres only a road for a few kilometers) to watch the (teddy) bears picnic on fish creek and look at more mountains and glaciers.

Dease Lake, British Columbia.

The last few days have brought a change in the weather, our temperatures  have dropped from the mid 20s down into the mid teens, about time to go back into long sleeves.

 

This pic. was taken around 4pm Sunday when we arrived at the campground in Haines Junction.

 

The mountain on the right of the first pic. taken 8am. Monday, low cloud and a sprinkling of new snow.

 

Same view taken around 10am. just before we left, direction Whitehorse.  The weather improved and after a few kilometers we drove into sunshine.

 

Arrived in Whitehorse at the HiCountry Campground in time for a late lunch and then spent the afternoon stocking up the cupboards for our next long trip to Prince George down highway 37.

 

We had our picnic lunch here after leaving Whitehorse on the drive to Jct.37

 

We passed this mountain only 3 weeks ago coming from the other direction, I don't think it looked as good from the other side. We spent the night at Jct. 37 RV campground ready for the drive into BC. 

A sunny start, but the clouds came over mid morning, not good for taking pics which is a shame because this drive is every bit as good as the Richardson

 

Big forest fire here in 2010, nature slowly repairing its self.

 

Camped up in Dease Lake RV Park, ready for the next leg tomorrow.

Valdez, Alaska to Haines junction, Yukon

We left Valdez on Friday morning, the weather man said it was going to rain all day Saturday so after a bit of thought we decided it was better to drive back in the sun than the rain. As it happened Friday morning was grey and showery and we didn't see much of the scenery till well past the Thompson Pass, when the sun broke through the clouds and the rest of the drive to Tok was in glorious sunshine.

 

The sky line as we climbed the Thompson Pass. 

 

Another one of those pesky pilot cars - at least the suns shining.

 

Lovely views on this Highway.        Saturday morning, nice and sunny, about 5km. down the road, warning signs, wild fires, we drove through smoke for about 50km. Just after the sign came up for the all clear the rain came down all the way to the Canadian border.

 

Around halfway from the border to Beaver Creek we came on this Moose which cheered us up no end.

 

The road from the border to Beaver Creek is awful, the worst road we have been on in North America . I am sure I have been on worse, maybe some of the back roads in Tenerife or some of the other islands but I can't recall at this moment anything as bad.

 

Our neighbours last night, cute eh!

The rain stopped overnight and we continue to Haines Jct. The weather brightened but the road didn't, it got worse, I didn't think it could be possible. Shake rattle and roll, broken plates, furniture all over the place -and they where tied down, didn't make any difference. This part of the Alcan is a disgrace.

But and the but is positive, the scenery is magnificent

as good as the Richardson, mountains with glaciers, lakes and rivers truly awesome (learning some american english)

The distance between Valdez and Haines Junction is 878km. A truly great drive (except for the awful surface)