Bear Spray Sold Here

Today, we saw some more stunning scenery – we drove closer to the mountains we saw yesterday, the Dawson range and the St. Elias mountains, which have the highest peaks in Canada, higher than the Colorado Rockies.

On one of our stops in the morning, I saw a sign for this product which I hope we don’t end up needing:

We drove along Kluane Lake, the largest lake in Yukon.  It is a beautiful lake, surrounded by mountains, the aquamarine color is so pretty it looks fake.  It’s fed in part by glacier melt, and it’s really cold! We stopped to have lunch on one of the beaches:

 

We ended mid-afternoon again, in Beaver Creek, the ‘most westerly community in Canada.’  Our hotel room turned out to be a cabin:

Sunset is at midnight, sunrise tomorrow at 5:01, but there are 2 hrs and 45 min of twilight, so just over 2 hours of actual darkness.

So far, we have driven about 3,800 miles and have driven almost the entire Alaska Highway – less than 200 of the 1,387 to go.  Tomorrow, we leave Canada and enter Alaska.