After a couple of rainy days for Terry to recoup, we headed to Tok. The day was overcast therefore leading to no interesting pictures. At that point we were just covering miles. We decided to stay at Tok RV park instead of the Sourdough since the Sourdough was not what we remembered from our trip in 2007. The entertainment was not up to speed.
The worst part of the drive is from the US boarder crossing to Beaver Creek. That portion of the road is terrible. We were told it had gotten so bad because of Washington budgets cuts. Since Canada has no residents along this part of the road they have little motive for fixing it alone. In all fairness they were working on parts of it but it is going to take a long time to finish without additional funds. Just take a look at the truck and trailer after this stretch.
Next stop was Whitehorse. This is a great resupply point. They even have a Walmart here. We visited the fish ladder at the dam. The Coho Salmon were just beginning to run here. Great fun to watch them come through the ladder. Next stop was to revisit the SS Klondike Paddle boat. This year it was a free self guided tour. For fist class passengers this was a great way to travel the Yukon River. Last but not least we had to visit Miles Canyon and hike up along it. We could not do the hike last time around.
From Whitehorse it was Down the Cassiar Highway to Hyder with a stop in our favorite park Shadow Mountain. By the way the road is in great shape. We understand it has become the favored truck route since it is shorter that the Alaskan Highway. I guess that is why they are continuing to improve it.
Because of our fresh water tank problems we stayed in Stuart, BC and drove the 6 miles to Hyder and the Fish Creek Bear viewing platform. As you can see we were successful in seeing Brown bears at the creek. Also saw black bears in Hyder and on our drive to Salmon Glacier. Salmon Glacier is the fifth largest glacier in Canada. It impressed us as much this time as last. We could only spend two day here as all campsites in the area were reserved because of caravans coming to town. This turned out to be ok since Sue came down with the crud. We stop by the clinic to have here looked at but it was going to cost $800 just to have here seen. The suggested that we go to Prince George as they would be more reasonable.
In Prince George we get our first hand look at Canadian Medical Care. The clinic is only open from 4pm to 10pm. We arrived at the location at 3:30pm and there was a line of around a dozen people. We thought we are going to be here forever. The opened promptly at 4 and began seeing patients. Within 45 minutes Sue was out the door with prescriptions in hand. No paper work to fill out and just $65. Now they had already processed the dozen of patients ahead. Sue was bothered because the did not take blood pressure or temperature, just asked what was wrong, listened to here chest. She did not know what to think.
Almost forgot the trip from Stuart to Prince George was interrupted for 8 or 9 hours because of a truck car head-on accident which shutdown the Yellowhead. We had seen the car involved earlier in the morning passing us in a construction zone where we were following a pilot car. The woman was in some sort of hurry as she wove in and out of the line of traffic at a high rate of speed. I commented to Sue at the time that that woman was going to cause an accident. The RCMP indicated that see went left of center into the truck. The truck had no where to go as you can see the concrete barrier. The truck driver was unhurt. The car drive was in critical condition. The transported her to Prince George and the life flighted her to Vancouver. We never found out whether she survived.
As usual the rest of the pictures are here.
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