Canadian Gardening: Yukon July 2009, 1 by MG99

MG99 wrote:
I was really pleased with the roads. I remember them being so bad that RV's in front of use would bottom out on the ups and downs and twists of the Alaska highway. They've taken most of that out. As our friends that live in Whitehorse say, it's just a real highway now. We didn't have any trouble at all until about 6 hours from home in Cache Creek. They were doing some chip sealing, and I got a crick in the wind shield. Previously on that drive I lost a windshield, had a flat tire, and when we got to Whitehorse, the truck was so dirty you couldn't tell what colour it was. I was disappointed that I barely got the truck dirty at all.

The wildlife around Liard was amazing. There had been a big forest fire through there in June, so much of the wildlife was out by the road to feed. We saw only 2 moose, I wanted a photo of them for Bullwinkle but didn't get it. We saw lots of Caribou, a herd of Bison along with 10 calfs, 29 bears that included mostly black, a few brown, one grizzly crossed the road ahead of us so we gave it lots of room. We also was a mom black bear with her 2 small cubs feeding in the grass about 60feet from the road. We all slowed, but no one stopped.

I was also so reminded about the huge amounts of sunlight during the summer. At the summer solstice in Whitehorse the sun is up about 4:15 and sets about 23:45 We got home and the sun set just before 9., it was a hard adjustment.

this photo is of Lake Labarge