"Road Narrows" the sign said.
Whitehorse to Carmacks, as I mentioned, the roads were the best we had driven for many days. Now we pay for it. The roads did indeed narrow and we lost the shoulders of the road and the weeds hung out over the road. The picture shows a beautiful straight stretch, but believe me it was the only stretch of straight road in 360km to Dawson City. The traffic was almost non existant. The scenery was once again different. Now we often drove beside the Yukon and Pelly Rivers, or high above them and in between the river views we saw large pristine lakes far below us still in their natural state as they have been for 1,000s of years, with no signs of human activity.
Moose family
We stopped many times on this leg as we had lots of pulloff places to take pictures and to have a break from the ever twisting , narrow, hilly road. To add to the slowness of pace there were many sections of gravel where if a truck passed you in the opposite direction you, the dust was like thick fog. To be kind to the drivers the construction crew also dumped truck loads of water in some gravel sections which now covered our truck and trailer with mud!! But we continued on even over the last 25 km into Dawson City which was the roughest gravel of the trip. The condition of the inside of the cupboards in the trailer did not make Bev happy.
We made it! Dawson City
We have now driven 7,750km since leaving home July 4th, about 1,750km of that touring around various places means we are now about 6,000km from home. We are almost at the end of our northwest direction, except we hope to drive to the Alaska border before we leave Dawson City. The Yukon River from the Klondike River.
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