Destruction Bay

Left Sourdough RV Park in Tok, Alaska by 7:30 am.  Started out as a clear beautiful sunny day.  Clouds soon built up and stayed with us most of the day.  In a few spots it even rained on us.

 

Crossing the border into Yukon Territories, Canada, was almost uneventful.  

Since we are carrying a rifle, Canada does not allow firearms to be loaded during transport.  A serious offense.  When presenting passports and rifle permit, the agent asked where was the rifle and if it was loaded.  Not thinking and having forgotten the “rules”, I truthfully answered it was in the RV and loaded. Oooops!!!  Received a lecture and was asked to pullover to the side and unload the weapon immediately.  The agent kept the passports and asked me to pick them up once the task was completed.  Expecting another lecture (or worse), I entered the building and walked up to the counter where the agent was waiting.  He asked if weapon had been unloaded and I responded it had been.  He returned the passports and a copy of the Canada laws referencing transportation of weapons. Pheeew!!!

Heading south, we viewed these mountain ranges.  These are part of the Icefield Ranges of the Saint Elias Mountains.  We discovered that these are the "highest and youngest" mountains in Canada.  The tallest is Mount Logan at 19,545 ft.   

We made it to Destruction Bay by 2:30 pm local time and having lost 1 hour due to time change.  

The worst of the "road from hell" should be behind us.  As you can see below going thru construction site; we not only have to follow pilot cars and share the road with other RVers but we also have to share it with wildlife.

The town is nothing more than a few buildings on one side of the Alaskan Highway and beautiful Kluane Lake on the other.  A walk and a little exploring after dinner, we learned a little about this town’s origin.  

The campground is very well situated.  There are mountains surrounding it.  The RV park itself is somewhat of a parking lot, but with these beautiful surroundings, we are very happy.  We have now come across the second RV caravan heading to Alaska.  This one has 18 RVs.  In Tok, we saw a much smaller one of 6 RVs.   Now that we are seeing RV traffic building up, we think it was a good decision to have left MO as early as we did.

 

 

Tomorrow the trip southward continues and we hope to be in Teslin, YT.