The Little Double Red Flags

Mile 813 - Teslin Lake, Yukon, Canada

From Watson Lake we traveled just a few hundred Km to Teslin Lake, home of the Tlingit First Nation tribe.  The population of Teslin is 450.  Nice little town with a couple of very nice museums that are worth stopping at.  Teslin sits along the Teslin Lake and Nisutlin Bay.  Absolutely beautiful spot.  The Tlingits ((Klink-it) residents are extremely helpful and want to educate visitors of their heritage as traders, trappers, and wood carvers.  We had a nice day walking around the village, taking Bodie for a walk in which he fell off a pier into a beaver damn and was schooled by the beaver!  He was scared…..

Today’s drive was what we though the Alaska Highway would be all about.  We began with a grizzly sighting along the road, then the ongoing road construction (they just cover the signs when they are not doing construction - permanent road signs) and the endless, endless FROST HEAVES!  Well, they do have the little double red triangle flags, but they are right when the heave happens…no warning, most of the time.  Sometimes you must wait for the construction for a while and people get out and write with rocks along the side of the highway.  Interesting??  This goes on for km’s.  

We crossed 7 times from the Yukon into BC and back.  No Cell service for 200 km. No RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) anywhere on the highway.  Since we entered Canada we have NOT seen 1 RCMP on the highway.  It’s a lonely highway with nothing but trees, frost heaves, gravel and more trees than anyone can ever imagine (no wonder the U.S. lumbar industry has collapsed).

We traveled north with the Cassiar Mtn range in the distance.  Beautiful scenery indeed.  Keeps getting better.  

Similar to the BC Provintial Parks, the Yukon Territory has the Government camps which are $12 Canadian dollars (not alot American $).  They all have free wood in storage containers, fire pits, lakeside campsites and potties!  and bears.

free wood!

nice Yukon Territory campsite