Sam And Saundra's Year Long Adventure - Part 125

Sam And Saundra’s Year Long Adventure – Part 125

Canada

6/16/09 – Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada

We got cold.  We are looking for a place to use the fold-a-boat and try out the electric motor David gave us.  This lake is too big and it has white caps. The wind is blowing and it is cold – very cold. We-are-the-only-ones-at-this-Park cold.  Cold.  This storm includes rain and clouds that come all the way down into our comfort zone. You cannot see the tops, middles and some bases of the many mountains around us, assuming they are all still there. We pack up and head on towards Kluane Lake.  It is located back on the Alaska Highway and is suppose to be a great place to go.  We’ll see. It is all of 125 miles from here.

Grizzly

The road to Kluane Lake is uneventful, other then the cold and clouds obstructing the scenery.  Oh well, we were getting spoiled anyway.  The closer to Kluane Lake we get, the better the weather.  We decide to stop and spend a couple of days, if the weather allows.  We choose to check out the Cottonwood RV Park first, because it is the first we see.  We decide to stay. Mainly because they indicate that two three-year-old grizzly cubs keep coming back into the park.  They had pictures of when their mom was still with them.  Cute little blonde cubs.  They say they are a little bigger now.  We set up camp and find little insects flying everywhere.  Sam panics, but is told that they are non-biting May flies.  He is happy.  I am not.  They like me.  Yuck!

Grizzly Chips

Kluane Lake is the largest lake in the Yukon.  Sam and I ponder whether it is bigger than Flathead Lake in Montana and decide – they are both big!  The Alaska Highway starts to get bad as it nears Kluane Lake. Signs say that the roadwork is basically constant and hopeless due to the frost heavsies – or some such thing.  The US even has a sign saying they gave money to keep the road in repair – lots of money.  Two of the bridges in this area are being replaced in the here and now.  I do NOT think that the Canadians are taking the money and running – I think it is just a battle that will be ongoing for quite a while.  There were some sections that had test things inserted – experimenting on keeping the frost from un-frosting and the roads from buckling.  We will see. The Canadians are going to need all the help they can get maintaining the northern roads.

Showing His Hump