Summer 1997 - Yukon to California
Journals - 12 July 1997
Day 2
12 July 1997 (rainy morning with strong head winds; decent afternoon --
cloudy; mileage = 37.4; 4km north of B.C., Yukon) -- X - Last night I was
kept awake by a vehicle opening and closing its doors way too much. I
figured they had to be spending the night there, and I found out in the
morning, they were. It was raining so we slept in quite a bit. We caught a
dry spell and packed up and were ready to leave when it rained some more.
Just enough to drag out the rain gear. The head wind was really tough for
me the whole morning. The scenery was excellent and I could imagine this
being a great ride with no head wind and good weather. We got to Carcross
and April had ice cream. I sampled it and it was good -- flavor: oatmeal
cookie dough. We then made sandwiches with cheese and lunch meat. We were
at a gas station's front porch and the wind wasn't strong here. When we
were done, we rode to the main part of Carcross. There were more than a
couple of churches which was surprising and a lot of touristy stuff which
wasn't surprising. April wanted to go in a touristy store. We saw
gold-painted moose shit. It's still stupid, like the last time I thought so
-- 22 years ago! We took off south. The winds were still against us. We
stopped at all the scenic overlooks -- there were many since the scenery
was quite a treat. One such stop was an old silver ore mill. It seemed very
interesting. We went down the road a bit and saw a semi-grassy area that we
thought we could camp on. We decided to go back and eat somewhere closer
to the mill (good bear safety). We had mac and cheese and oatmeal which was
very good. We talked to some guys (one had an OR hat, so I knew he was
cool!) who had been exploring the mountains and mines. We were heading to
our camp spot when I wanted to check a bit further. There was a road going
up to the mines. It was blocked off and very steep. A and I both pushed
each bike up. Some people saw us and stopped, too -- copycat tourists. We
set up the tent and hiked up the mines. Very fascinating. One was open, but
I lacked flashlight and nerve for that adventure. We explored and returned.
We are sitting outside the tent enjoying fresh mountain air with no
mosquitoes! Not even one!
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