Day 5 Whiskers
Point to Dawson Creek
Rain. Rain,
rain, rain. The clouds were so low that sometimes we were driving in
them. If we hadn't driven this road before, we would have had no
idea that there are spectacular views of the Canadian Rockies to be
seen. All we saw was clouds. The road work turned out to be a
non-event. As we rolled up to the one lane section, Gerry tried to
stop for the flagger but he kept waving us over into the through
lane, so we just rolled through like there was nothing there. And on
through the rain and clouds we went. The Pine River, which we
crossed several times, was high and rushing and fierce.
We camped at Mile
0 RV park in Dawson Creek. It was slightly less of a mud hole than
the other parks we passed looked like. Since it was still cold and
rainy, we toured the Alaska Highway House, a small museum about
building the highway. I knew it had to have been hard, but I had no
idea how impossible the conditions were. Mud, mosquitoes,
permafrost, bitter cold and hot dust – they had it all in a
trackless, densely forested wilderness. It was an amazing
accomplishment.
We got the
mandatory photos at the original Mile 0 monument even though it was
still grey and spitting rain. After dinner the sun made an
appearance so we dashed over to the large monument and got photos
there.
We are off on the
official Alaskan Highway on Monday. I suspect we will be out of cell
service for a couple of days.
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