Beaver Creek Yukon to Whitehorse BC 8-26-12

Leaving Beaver Creek, we've been told it's suppose to be 50 miles of bad roads, dirt, frost heaves an construction.

St. Elias Mountain Range Yukon.

More construction and bad roads.

Mount Logan Yukon, in the clouds.

Mount Logan 19,545 feet high of the St. Elias Mountain Range Yukon. Highest peak in Canada.

More dirt roads Yukon

 

Wrangell Mountain range miles away in Alaska.

Kluane Mountain range, Yukon.

Field of cottonwood weed.

Mountain peaks just before Kluane Lake.

Coming into view of Kluane Lake, the most beautiful lake and surrounding mountain scenery we have ever scene. This lake has a very unique story of its reformation. Around three to four hundred years ago the Kaskawulch Glacier advanced and closed off the Slims River which was the drain for the lake. It ran 140 miles south to Alaska and the pacific ocean. The glacier raised the lake 30 feet, enough to cause it to drain north 10,000 miles to the Bering Sea. When the glacier melted the north drain dug deep and is still the drain today.

Looking east Kluane Lake.

Looking east on Kluane Lake's south shore, from the west end.

North Shore of Kluane Lake.

Mountain peaks south shore of Kluane Lake.

Lower mountains on the south shore of Kluane Lake.

South end of Kluane Lake where Slims River used to drain it to the pacific ocean 140 miles away.

Kluane Lake south shore. There is a road at the base of the mountain you can't see we just drove around on.

Kluane Lake south end where it used to drain.

Kluane Lake south end.

Mountain peaks of Wrangell St. Elias National Park Alaska.

Bill's favorite road, switchbacks.

Ash from a volcano that erupted in Alaska about 500 years ago, we saw it on the other route we took up. It covers hundreds of miles or acres of the Yukon.

Neat rock outcropping.

Last hill on the way into Whitehorse, BC.

Aug. 26, 2012 Traveling south in the Yukon, Beaver Creek to Whitehorse. Nobody comes here unless they have to. This is no where. Remote as can be, nothing but you and the mountains. Only a way to Alaska. But as you can see some of the most beautiful country ever. You can see Wrangell St. Elias National Park in some places miles in the distance.  Then you come to Kluane Lake, it is the largest lake in the Yukon and is breathtaking. Words cannot describe, you never want to leave. No people, no cottages, no traffic, no pollution, no jets, no sirens, no noise at all, no politics, just fresh air and gorgeous scenery. You can hear your heart beat and it feels great. Three hundred miles of god's country, we must be in heaven man.