overlanders (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} overlanders) wrote,@ 2006-08-01 18:51:00 |
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Stewart B.C / Hyder, Alaska
We're in Stewart B.C.
Nice small town that has yet to be gentrified. From Whitehorse we took the South Klondike Hwy to Skagway Alaska. WOW...this 110 km stretch had the nicest scenery I've seen in Canada so far. Emerald Lake is beautiful and looks like an emerald in colour.
Skagway is a beautiful setting, but too many places to buy porceline figurines and they have a Starbucks - figures. It's also a port-of-call for the Alaskan cruise ships, so tourists are plentiful most of the time.
The road to Skagway follows the Chilkoot Pass and the White Pass & Yukon Rail route - which was built to get gold-diggers from Skagway to Whitehorse during the gold rush.
From there we took the Alaska Hwy to the Cassiar Hwy in BC. Incredibly scenic as it's a narrow road the the trees are right there about 10 feet away from you in some areas.
We know you Torontonians are swealtering in 35+ degree weather, but here in northern B.C., it's about 15 degrees with spurts of sun showers.
The 65 km ride to Stewart was like winter, cold, rainy, sunny and snow capped mountains. We also stopped to photograph a glacier.
All is going well and we know we are heading south because the sun goes down around 10:30 pm. Big different 500 km makes. In the Yukon, it's still setting after 1 AM.
- Lorne
That stretch from Whitehorse to Skagway is insanely beautiful - we were laughing with absolute disbelief that we were seeing all this - it was crazy-gorgeous, and just kept getting more and more beautiful. And we've seen bears walking at the side of the road. In BC before we got to Skagway, we visited this guy who nurses eagles back to health, so we got to see them close up. One was sitting on his bed....A couple of days ago, on the way to Rancheria (in Yukon) we saw a moose calmly grazing in a pond while lightning forked over the mountains in the distance. I figured out how to take mini movies on my camera, so Live and Amazing Footage will soon be coming to dvd! I am making a movie called Pillion which I've already shopped to several um interested um producers. I did swim in Pine Lake in the Yukon, but did not bathe there.....It was a little chilly.
Cindy
We're in Stewart B.C.
Nice small town that has yet to be gentrified. From Whitehorse we took the South Klondike Hwy to Skagway Alaska. WOW...this 110 km stretch had the nicest scenery I've seen in Canada so far. Emerald Lake is beautiful and looks like an emerald in colour.
Skagway is a beautiful setting, but too many places to buy porceline figurines and they have a Starbucks - figures. It's also a port-of-call for the Alaskan cruise ships, so tourists are plentiful most of the time.
The road to Skagway follows the Chilkoot Pass and the White Pass & Yukon Rail route - which was built to get gold-diggers from Skagway to Whitehorse during the gold rush.
From there we took the Alaska Hwy to the Cassiar Hwy in BC. Incredibly scenic as it's a narrow road the the trees are right there about 10 feet away from you in some areas.
We know you Torontonians are swealtering in 35+ degree weather, but here in northern B.C., it's about 15 degrees with spurts of sun showers.
The 65 km ride to Stewart was like winter, cold, rainy, sunny and snow capped mountains. We also stopped to photograph a glacier.
All is going well and we know we are heading south because the sun goes down around 10:30 pm. Big different 500 km makes. In the Yukon, it's still setting after 1 AM.
- Lorne
That stretch from Whitehorse to Skagway is insanely beautiful - we were laughing with absolute disbelief that we were seeing all this - it was crazy-gorgeous, and just kept getting more and more beautiful. And we've seen bears walking at the side of the road. In BC before we got to Skagway, we visited this guy who nurses eagles back to health, so we got to see them close up. One was sitting on his bed....A couple of days ago, on the way to Rancheria (in Yukon) we saw a moose calmly grazing in a pond while lightning forked over the mountains in the distance. I figured out how to take mini movies on my camera, so Live and Amazing Footage will soon be coming to dvd! I am making a movie called Pillion which I've already shopped to several um interested um producers. I did swim in Pine Lake in the Yukon, but did not bathe there.....It was a little chilly.
Cindy
