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posted: August 31st, 2023 |
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This page continues where Page 2 ended - on August 9th at 1:05 PM, while driving north in Tombstone Territorial Park on Canada's Dempster Highway. We drove to the north boundary of the park and turned around there to return to the Tombstone Mountain Campground for a second night. On the following day we drove to the Taylor Highway, in Alaska, and then on August 11th we drove from the Walker Fork Campground on the Taylor Highway, to our home in Fairbanks. What an amazing vacation it was. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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It's still Day #9 of our vacation and we are still driving north on the Dempster Highway through the Tombstone Territorial Park, Y.T., Canada. Here are three more amazing photos of this country.
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I don't really know what to write about these photos. The scenery was just so amazing that we were continually saying "WOW!".
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Here are another three photos of this incredible area, these incredible mountains.
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This is Mount Vines - we kept seeing it off in the distance for a long time, shrouded in smoke. Finally we came around a curve and there it was, no longer behind other ridges and mountains. The second shot marks the northern boundary of the Tombstone Territorial Park. The lake is Chapman Lake if you want to go back and look at the map again.
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Now we are headed back south on the Dempster Highway, from Chapman Lake. The second shot again shows the view from the Tombstone Range Viewpoint, note how much the smoke has increased from earlier in the day.
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Now it's Day #10 of our vacation. Today we'll drive back south on the Dempster Highway, go into Dawson City and do some sightseeing, cross the Yukon River on the free ferry, and drive along The Top of the World Highway. The first two shots here were again taken at the Tombstone Range Viewpoint, note how much worse the smoke is today, we can't see the Tombstone Range at all. As we were leaving, Kazuya spotted this amazing caribou, isn't it a beauty.
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Here are two more shots of this amazing caribou. The third shot is Dawson City, Y.T. from the overlook. It's still smoky.
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There was a lot of this green rock around here, anybody know what it is? A magnet will stick to the black areas. The center photo shows an historic building in Dawson City. The third shot is the largest (of two) supermarkets in Dawson City.
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Here is another historic building, followed by the Dawson City Farmers Market. The third shot is the free ferry to cross the Yukon River and access The Top of the World Highway.
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The first shot here shows a scene along The Top of the World Highway. The second shot shows an ongoing forest fire north of the highway. This is now in Alaska. The third photo is the only photo we'll show you from the final day of our vacation, Day #11. It shows us driving south on the Taylor Highway. We arrived back at our home later on in the afternoon. It was an amazing vacation.
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Here is a map that shows the route we traveled for our vacation. Follow the blue arrows from Fairbanks to Delta Junction, Tok, Beaver Creek, Haines Junction, Haines, then Haines Junction again, Whitehorse, Carmacks, Pelly Crossing, Tombstone Interpretive Center, Dawson City, Chicken, Tok, Delta Junction, and then back to Fairbanks. The total trip was 2,053 miles.
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