Beaver Creek

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Thursday, June 3, 2016

The tale of two different driving experiences:

The drive to Beaver Creek, was initially very scenic, dry, sunny, beautiful, and became the “Drive from Hell”.  The scenery was outstanding especially around Kluane Lake and Kluane National Forest.  After that, all I can remember is potholes, rocks and wavy broken roads.




















A 5.5 hr. drive turned into 7:45 hrs.  A total of 4+ hours were spent driving between 5 – 30 mph   mostly due to road conditions.  Either due to frost heaves caused by Permafrost and or due to construction and plain gravel/mud road; the driving was excruciatingly painful.



Permafrost damaged road:


















Animals seen today were Grizzly bear; a very much meaner looking bear than his cousins the Black bears.  2 wild horses and a fox.  I guess that due to the constructions noises, animals are staying away from the roads.  Plenty of warnings about moose, Caribou and Elk crossings on the road but we have yet to see any today. 


We are 20 miles from the border and looking forward to getting back into good old USA.  

Unfortunately, it is still 320 miles to Fairbanks.  Should we do it on one shot???

Comments

  1. UnknownJune 6, 2016 at 5:15 AM

    Sure, one shot, go for it. Fairbanks or Bust!!!!

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  2. UnknownJune 6, 2016 at 3:03 PM

    Wow!!! This is amazing guys!!! I hope you are having a blast can't wait to see you when you return. Love you guys. The Atkins 5

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