Left our campground
in Dawson Creek and started at Mile 0 of the Alaskan Highway. We had purchased a book called Milepost which
details all the things along the Alaskan HW, based on the miles from the start. We didn't know how much we would use this,
but it turns out quite nice, especially explaining some of the history of the
Alaskan HW. The HW was a 2 lane highway
and in very good shape. That was one of
the worries about travelling the Alaskan HW, was the shape of the roads. So far so good. Yesterday on HW 40, we did run into some
"frost heaves", which are sudden huge bumps in the road, caused by
the winter. We were very careful and
slowed down when spotting them. We haven't
seen any of these yet along the Alaskan HW (now call HW 97).
Started out today
travelling with a lot of trucks, servicing the oil and gas fields thru the
area, along with logging trucks. After
we left the oil and gas area, it was just logging trucks. Later in the afternoon, we left the trucks
behind and it was just us and lots of rolling hills and trees. We could go a fairly long time without seeing
another car. We passed what looked like
a forest fire on one of the mountains close to the highway. That is a big thing up here. There was a big area that was burned out by a
fire in 2015.
Weather was warm
again today and I think it is warmer than usual in talking with the
locals. Sitting out on our lawn chairs
(typing this up), at our mountain top pull off, it is cooling down fast.
Our plan was to
spend the night at a roadside pull off.
Apparently you can camp overnight at these places here in northern
Canada and Alaska. Another nice thing
is that we are alone and it's free. We
found a place that was a pull off on top of a mountain with a fantastic view of
the valley below. This was at Mile 335
on the Alaskan HW and about 30 miles west of the town of Fort Nelson. Setting up here for the night. There is a thunderstorm in the distance,
travelling across the valley. Cool to
watch the rain and lightning in the distance.
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The last remaining original bridge from the Alaskan Highway. This was on a
pull-off near the beginning.
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| Alaskan HW between Dawson Creek and Fort Nelson |
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| Our mountain top roadside campsite west of Fort Nelson |
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| Cool view from our campsite |
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