| Below: A wild coyote alongside
the road. Karen Duquette quickly snapped the photo from inside the moving
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| Kluane Lake -
Again, photos were taken from a moving RV through the window - so forgive
the window reflections. The road pull-outs were NOT big enough for the two
RV Gypsies to pull over and stop, but the lake was so beautiful that these
photos still deserve to be seen. This lake is considered one of the most
beautiful lakes in the WORLD. |
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Lake Kluane is the largest lake in the Yukon Territory |
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are photos from the same area - Kluane Lake and Destruction
Bay. This set of photos was taken on the return trip -
leaving Alaska and returning to Canada about 2-1/2 months later on August
14, 2009. Everything changes quickly here. |
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Below: This is where the color of the water changed
due to glacial water - AMAZING that there is such a definite line for
the color change instead of both colors blending together. |
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| Below: This Destruction Bay area
is where the roads were the worst going into Alaska in June 2009, but they
were repaired by the return trip in August. Not that it mattered, the two
RV Gypsies already had a cracked windshield and a pitted RV and toad. |
| BEAUTIFUL SCENERY
- Kluane Icefield Ranges
- approaching Haines Junction |
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Below: The 24 foot high Haines Junction
monument depicts wildlife
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| Haines Junction was established in 1942 during
construction of the Alaska Highway. The first buildings here were Army barracks
for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Engineers were to build a new
branch road connecting the Alaska Highway with the port of Haines on Lynn
Canal. It was completed in 1943. |
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Below: Burwash Landing
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| Burwash Landing is known for its black spruce
burl bowls. Burls start as an irritation in the spruce. The tree sends extra
sap as sealant, which creates a growth or burl. Burls are either "green"
- harvested from live trees in the spring, or they are "dry burls"
taken from dead burl trees. Burls are peeled of their bark and used in their
natural form as fence posts or shaped and finished into a variety of objects
such as bowls. |
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| Burwash Landing is the traditional home of
the Southern Tutchone people of the Kluane Fist nation. the present location
was first used as a summer camp until a trading post was built in the early
1900's. Burwash Landing had its 100th anniversary in 2004. There is a post
office, community hall and several businesses. |
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| The two RV Gypsies stayed overnight
in Beaver Creek before traveling on to Tok - the Gateway to Alaska. Beaver
Creek's population swells all the way up to 200 in the summer although they
have a population of 149 year round. U.S. Customs is located 21 miles north
of Beaver Creek on the Alaska Highway. Beaver Creek is the most westerly
community in Canada. |
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Below: Some
kind of wind control by the roadside |
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scenery |
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