Shortly after starting out on the Alaska Hwy, we detoured off to drive a portion of the original road cut in 1942 by the Army.  This wooden bridge is the only one still standing and naturally we had to drive across.  

 Over the next three days we drove further into the north and away from everything else.  

 We passed back over the Northern Rockies and followed a variety of rivers for miles.

 This is Muncho Lake and is one of the most beautiful we have seen anywhere.

 We camped on the shore of this river for one night.  No services but who cares.

We took a dip in the Laird Hot Springs which sits in the middle of nowhere just off the highway.  Very hot and very relaxing with temps of 105 to 125.

We have now made it to the Yukon and are stopped at Watson Lake.  Stay tuned.

d

 We spent 2 days driving up into Northern British Columbia, stopping many times for waterfalls and views.  Millie spotted our first bear of the trip.

 Crossed over the northern portion of the Canadian Rockies and drove into a rain and wind storm that did a great job of cleaning the windshield but didn't help with our nerves.

 We took a side trip up to the top of Kinuseo Falls just outside Dawson Creek.

We are now at the beginning of the Alaska Highway at Mile Marker 0 in Dawson Creek, BC.  We will head north and west from here into the Yukon Territory and then on to Alaska.

On June 18th we headed out on our long delayed trip to Alaska.  We plan to take about 2 months up and back and will have traveled about 8500 miles by the time we return.  Along the way we will try to post to this blog and keep anyone interested up to date on our adventure.  Here, Millie is out looking for bears but only finding mosquitoes so far.

We are following the Frasier River for the first few days of out trip.  As you know Alaska and Canada received an unusual amount of snow this past year and the Frasier and most other rivers are all running very high.

Here is our "camp" in Hixon, BC

 

What else is there to say about this!

  
O