I Don't Share With A Bear! (Day 41)



The campground we stayed at last night was near a small town called Destruction Bay. When I say small, I mean small…55 people live there.  The town was created during the building of the Alaskan Highway.  It was included in many relay stations that were every 100 miles for truckers to rest and repair their trucks.  It got its name from a storm that went through there and destroyed buildings and materials.  The name of the lake there is Kluane…same lake we stopped at and I showed you a picture earlier; but then it was covered with ice.  The water is crystal clear and freezing cold!

Amazed at how everything has turned so green since we were through here just weeks ago.



They say this is the most photographed sculpture on the Alaskan Highway.  It is located near the intersection of the Alaskan Highway and the Haines Highway in the town of Haines Junction, Alaska.  This is where we continue to follow the Alaskan Highway south and it’s all newroad from here on until we reach Jasper

(which we visited 30 years ago).

After the railroad was completed in the early 1900’s from Skagway... with the Yukon River, Whitehorse became the center of transportation.  River travel was the only means of getting there until the Alaskan Highway was built in 1942.  Due to its accessibility,
it became the capital of the Yukon Territory.

          Rock graffiti?  I love it!  It beats spray painting!

Time to look for a campground and guess what we see again?  The only thing…it’s a Black bear tonight,

not a Grizzly!

                      Think he’ll smell my hot dogs cooking? 

                           Well….I’m NOT SHARING!

         Our 3 most important cans to have at a
          campsite in the middle of June.

        Nothing like the smell of a campfire at night and…
     the smell of the spruce trees in the morning. Ahhhhh.