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Tight for time and internet access. So here is two days worth of information in one post. I’m not exactly sure when I will get to post next. We’re headed for Jasper and Bamph national parks. Could be a couple days. Anyways, here is where we left off 🙂

Leaving Kluane campground and the spectacular landscape we headed deeper into Yukon Territory and finally into British Columbia. Our destination was Laird Hot Springs. To get there we had to travel 500ish miles. Turns out it was mountainous and windy. The roughest part for both of us was the frost heaves. The ground under the road is permafrost and this wreaks havoc on the road. So you end up with sections of the road where pot holes appear or massive bumps and dips all stacked close together. So the road becomes treacherous to drive. The driver (not me) has to be constantly alert for these little orange flags on the side of the road. You then slow down or swerve around them. Since it’s early in the season there isn’t a lot of traffic to deal with on the road.

We have been taking advantage of the rally car inspired handling of the Subaru. 🙂

There were some really cool animals along side the road!

We arrive at Laird hot springs late that night. Set up camp and hustled over to the hot springs. They’re hot. And after spending a day or two cramped in a car… so very nice to get into.

The next day had us get up (32F) eat a hasty breakfast and hustle up to the hot springs. It made sense to visit a second time before leaving 😉

An hour south of of Laird I realized that my jacket was missing. it contained my iPod and Passport.

Oh crap.

We spend the next 2 hours retracing our stops and steps looking for the jacket. I walked ½ a mile along the road where we stopped to get some pictures of the mountains. We checked our fuel fill up stations. No luck. Last place to check was the hot springs. Turns out the park maintenance guy found my jacket and set it aside.

YAY!!!!

I left him $20 to go buy a beer… since I couldn’t stay and buy it for him. And I don’t drink… 🙂

It look like the jacket got run over once or twice. The jacket is fine. The passport is fine. The iPod is not… Everything looks ok on it but when you connect it to power you get this message with a dead iPod icon indicating you should check this website.

Pretty sure that’s a bad sign.

I can’t get the music off it either… so now we’re down to 6 mix cds. 🙁

Still… I was relieved to get the passport back and if I had to chose between the two… it’s still the passport.

I’m now storing the passport in a secure location 😉

We unfortunately blew our entire schedule for the day. The drive from Laird, to Laird and then away again ate up most of the day. We’re looking to camp at a town north of Ft. St. John. We’ll see how it turns out.

Below are pictures from both day’s travels. Enjoy!

Jon

The view from the campground. Seriously.

See! Nature trail from our campground!

A gaming store in Whitehorse? We’ve so got to go. I bought some dice 🙂

It used to shuttle people up and down the river. In the Yukon Territory. Cool!

The construction traffic management here is automated. When the counter gets to 0 we get to go and the other side is stopped and clear.

The road is still pretty

Canada is on the Metric system. So to find these historic Mile markers along the Alaska Canada highway is kinda fun 🙂

My first Arctic Redfox!

At the sign post forest.

Me pointing to my town. Didn’t realize that Arvada sent up a sign 🙂 2347 miles is a long way to go.

Made it into British Columbia today!

Canadians have a different spelling for certain items. Especially in French 😉

Laird Hot springs. The lower pool

The water is very hot. But very nice for you. Here’s Ryan for scale 🙂

The upper pool at Laird Hot Springs. It’s hot! And deep. You have to tread water in the middle.

Mountain Sheep

Teenager Mountain Sheep. Note the rebellious hair.

Still very pretty on the drive

It stopped looking like this when we got out of the main mountains. Now, just rolling hills and endless forest.