Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

We are in Whitehorse, YT, Canada. We have been here for 2 nights and we will be here one more night. This is the largest town in the Yukon, so we are stocking up and doing a few maintenance things.

We discovered a fish none of us had tried, Char. Char is an Arctic fish that is delicious. My main goal for the day is to go to the fish market and buy Char.

When we leave here, we will be heading to Dawson City and the to the "top of the world highway". We will cross into Alaska at that point. We plan to celebrate Canada Day, July 1st, in Dawson City, Canada, and then July 4th in Fairbanks, Alaska. The Talberts are not going to the top of the world, but instead are heading south and around the Klondike Loop then they will meet us in Tok, Alaska before going into Fairbanks.

We are having difficulty loading Papa Gibby's campsite videos, due to slow connection speeds. I hope to resolve this soon. We do have phone service here, so if you want to call us this would be a good place, I don't know what the next few towns provide. We miss our family and friends but are truly having a wonderful adventure.

Watson Lake

We had a good day to travel. The weather was overcast and not much rain. We saw bison, bear, wild horses and a red fox. This area is vast and heavily forested.

We were excited to be among over 60,000 people who have hung a sign in the "Sign Post Forest". This started from a soldier that was homesick and hung a sign with his hometown on it. Well as you can see a lot of people have hung signs. There are signs made from shoes, bedpans, you name it. We hung a "Seale" sign. This is my maiden name and in honor of my Dad, we chose this sign. He would have loved this trip, the beautiful scenery and especially the wildlife. Here's to you Dad, I miss you and wish you were still here with us.

Lake Muncho Day 2

We went to the Laird hot springs today. These are by far the most natural hot springs we have visited. You walk back into the forest for about 1/2 mile then the pools are among what looks like the tropics. Really beautiful, relaxing and fun. This was the first time the Talberts have ever been in a natural hot spring, and they loved it. We met a girl on the trip here that told us "a bear will eat you there for no good reason, eh". We had no bear encounters, just another great day.

trip to Muncho Lake

We drove to Muncho Lake where we saw beautiful water falls and were surprised by our first bison. Bison move in herds and protect their babies in between the larger animals. Very cool to see and watch. Muncho Lake is another beautiful blue ~ green lake. This one is not glacier fed, but gets the color from the minerals in the area, especially copper oxide. The park is great, we are positioned to where we look out our front window and see the lake.

Dawson Creek

We drove our initial run to Dawson Creek. This is Mile Zero for the Alaskan highway. We are packed into an Rv park like sardines. I will now look at the Provincial parks as we drove through a few of those and they are more what we are looking for.

Jasper hot springs and the tram

Yesterday was our second day in Jasper. We decided to go to the hot springs and then up the tram (our friend Bill told us not to miss this). The Talberts had other plans so off we went.

We ran into three elks before we ever left the park. They were so passive we could have almost walked up to them. The drive to the hot springs was beautiful and we saw bear, mountain ram, mountain goats and of course more elk. We also saw a white tail deer ~ really different from anything we had seen.

We planned to meet the Talberts at 5:00 for a tram ride. Their day had taken a different course so they couldn't join us. We rode up the 7 minute tram. It was so incredible. We were at about 8000 feet, above the tree line. At this height here, it can snow at any time any day of the year. We took lots of beautiful pictures. The lakes were incredible. There are so many lakes that have no roads to access. I guess I need to be a more advanced hiker to see all this beautiful country has to offer. It was so cold outside! We got in line to take out 7 minute trip back down the tram. The attendant announced that we had a short wind delay. They don't move the tram in high winds for safety sake. So we took a few more shots, had some hot chocolate and then it started to snow! How fun! Well we came back down the tram 2 1/2 hours later, but safely.

Have I mentioned that the Canadians are kind, and polite and their accent makes them sound happy all the time. Someone had emailed us from the OCR article and mentioned that Canadians are really easy going nice people. We agree and love the attitude they have.

First Day at Jasper

We took a drive today and found a few animals, enjoy...............then there was the falls..............

The trip from Radium to Jasper

Talberts joined us in Radium, we played golf at Gray Wolf and love it. Then we drove from Radium to Jasper. What a beautiful drive! Enjoy these picts and then when I get a better connection I will send more photos.

Banff & Lake Louise

Today we drove to Banff and Lake Louise. It rained and was pretty chilly. The photos at Lake Louise, I had 4 jackets on. There is really no place that we have ever seen as beautiful as Lake Louise. The colors are awesome, some of these photos don't give it it's due credit. Maybe we can go back in the sun. Honestly, it didn't matter to us, we love it there. Another thing we couldn't capture is that between the mountains that feed into the lake there is a giant glacier. The white glacier and the white sky blend together. (If there is a photographer keeping up with us, please help ~ Jebb ~) We saw two really cool elks and probably 8 deers. I will post the photos as soon as I can. Until then enjoy an idea of what this is like.

Carvings and Rams

We didn't mention it when we were in Hope, but Hope is the capital of chain saw carvings. We saw carved bears, deer, elk, eagles etc. Yesterday, here in Radium we ran across our favorite carvings, beautiful life size carvings of the stations of the cross.

We also ran across a group of mountain rams. Does anyone know what function those horns have? Starla, I bet you know.

Hope to the Bridge

Hope to the End of the road

We left Hope, BC for a short trip to Kamloops. The weather was rain, snow, and even sun. When we arrived in Kamloops we decided to keep going and found a great lake! Shuswap Lake! We decided to try to find a campsite at the lake...we found a single lane covered bridge. We always say "a bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn" today we learned that sometimes you put the sucker in reverse for about a half of a mile or so...



We ended up in Revelstoke in a quite, peaceful park.

Bridal Veil Falls, BC, Canada

The rain was relentless, but we were too and went to see the Bridal Falls Waterfalls. We also drove up to see Harrison Hot Springs. The clouds prevented us from seeing much of the lake, but we do have some shots of the falls. The last shot is a waterfall directly behind our RV site.

Canada

We made it to Canada! No problems at the border. We saw a beautiful waterfall, and then another and another and another! The trees and mountains are awesome. Then we went to Hell's Gate on the Frasier River. Unbelievably powerful river gorge.