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This is a diary of where we are, where we were and what we are doing. Check out the older posts unfortunatly I am slower putting up the pictures than Margaret is writing the blogs Colin :)
Friday, June 24, 2005
Leaving Dawson City
We were undecided as to when we should leave to avoid a line up at the ferry crossing over the Yukon River. We decided on 9:00AM and only had to wait about 20 minutes.
Now to tackle the “Top of the World Hwy.” A good portion is not paved, very bumpy, narrow and no guards to speak of.....generally not a very good road and dusty as all get out. The summit which reaches an elevation 4,515 feet was where we stopped for lunch. I built a rock man here.
The US Customs office located in Poker (population 2) is within site of the summit.
Then further on was a small town called “Border” the location of a gas station, airstrip and gift shop. There only claim to fame is that they have the best coffee in Border....(no competition???)
We drove on to the high point of the trip....Chicken, so named because the Goldminers of the day who settled here wanted to call it Ptarmigan after the abundance of the birds found here, so instead they called it Chicken. Downtown Chicken sports a Gift shop, Liquor Store, Saloon and Restaurant....that’s it! In another location there is also an outpost, Gold Panning, an old dredge and a Post office. Population of Chicken??? 37.
We carried on to the Bureau of Land Management campground and pulled in for the night. The fellow that looks after the park is I’m sure a brother of Moses’ and still living. Very nice man. They had not delivered his firewood so he managed to scrounge up a few pieces for us. Fire to cook dinner and then a nice relaxing evening......inside.....mosquitoes.....outside!!
Now to tackle the “Top of the World Hwy.” A good portion is not paved, very bumpy, narrow and no guards to speak of.....generally not a very good road and dusty as all get out. The summit which reaches an elevation 4,515 feet was where we stopped for lunch. I built a rock man here.
The US Customs office located in Poker (population 2) is within site of the summit.
Then further on was a small town called “Border” the location of a gas station, airstrip and gift shop. There only claim to fame is that they have the best coffee in Border....(no competition???)
We drove on to the high point of the trip....Chicken, so named because the Goldminers of the day who settled here wanted to call it Ptarmigan after the abundance of the birds found here, so instead they called it Chicken. Downtown Chicken sports a Gift shop, Liquor Store, Saloon and Restaurant....that’s it! In another location there is also an outpost, Gold Panning, an old dredge and a Post office. Population of Chicken??? 37.
We carried on to the Bureau of Land Management campground and pulled in for the night. The fellow that looks after the park is I’m sure a brother of Moses’ and still living. Very nice man. They had not delivered his firewood so he managed to scrounge up a few pieces for us. Fire to cook dinner and then a nice relaxing evening......inside.....mosquitoes.....outside!!