Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Tatanka in the Yukon

Last night it got quite cold.  We built a campfire on the lake which was nice until a cold windy rainy weather front blew in.  I believe it got down into the mid 30's. Unfortunately during the night our furnace stopped due to an empty propane tank.  It was so chilly that even our cat ended up in bed between us and under the covers.  

After breakfast we hitched up and headed toward Liard Hot Springs which was about an hour from our campsite.  We spent the morning swimming in the hot mineral springs.  It was wonderful and very refreshing.  Everyone who travels the Alaskan Highway should stop here. 

Today we made it into the Yukon and the Bison were everywhere within a 75 mile stretch of road.  There were many individual herds.  Our favorite was a herd with a couple large Bison and a frisky baby who kept bouncing and running around in circles.  It was a joy to watch this baby Bison just loving life.  At one point while running around mom it purposely bumped her with his head and she took off after him.  Not all that different than us in some respects.

So many bear that we just zoom by them and wave. 

Tonight we're staying in Watson Lake which is the site of the famous sign forest.  Anyone traveling the highway is encouraged to put up a sign here.  To date there are 77,000 signs in this forest.  There's also a good visitor center connected to the forest with a museum about the construction of the Alaskan Highway.   The one thing we really wanted to do here was to go into the Northern lights museum but they closed it today to give the workers a 5 day weekend.


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